NASA has announced an exciting discovery hurtling through our solar system: an interstellar object. It’s a comet, but beyond ...

It's the so-called "Milky Way season" in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about viewing the galaxy ...

In the vast expanse of the universe, the Milky Way Galaxy holds a special place in our hearts. It is our home, and after studying it for decades from our cosmic residence nestled within one of its ...

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

Two meteor showers and the return of the Milky Way make up the top astronomy events for July. Mark these events down on your ...

A collision between the Milky Way and neighboring galaxy Andromeda is far from a sure thing; in fact, it could hinge on the flip of a cosmic coin.

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...

New data show a 50% chance the Milky Way won't collide with Andromeda. A merger with the Large Magellanic Cloud is far more likely. ... The study, published today in Nature Astronomy, ...

By the start of the 20th century, they concluded that the Milky Way had a spiral shape and measured about 100,000 light-years across and about 1,000 light-years thick at its center.

More information: Till Sawala et al, No certainty of a Milky Way–Andromeda collision, Nature Astronomy (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02563-1 Journal information: Nature Astronomy ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the same time it's shooting out radio waves.

Stock image of the Milky Way and the Dark River. CHAO-FENG LIN/iStock / Getty Images Plus. The present study builds upon Graur's previous work on ancient Egyptian depictions of the Milky Way ...