Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using ...

Einstein's theory posits that mass distorts space. This distortion can bend light from distant objects. Astronomers use this ...

Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.

Greetings! Your early morning eastern sky is filled with very bright stars and planets and it’s worth getting up and having a ...

Astronomers have discovered a rogue planet in the Milky Way using old Hubble data and Einstein's theory of general relativity.

At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...

Scientists have long studied the vast and mysterious web-like structure of our universe, filled with clusters, filaments, and ...

Milky Way images from NASA’s Hubble Telescope show stars, nebulae, and galaxies., Technology & Science, Times Now ...

An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

The Milky Way is readily visible without the use of a telescope or high-powered binoculars. But if you have them, magnification devices will let you get a closer look at various points of interest.

The Milky Way's true shape—implied in its riverlike path across the sky—offers an important clue as well. If our galaxy were a huge spherical structure of stars with Earth near its center, its ...