A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Hoping for a glimpse of the Milky Way? These user-friendly apps help stargazers learn more about objects in the sky, check ...

Across the Milky Way, planets slightly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune appear around most stars. Yet our own solar ...

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy containing 100-400 billion stars. Planet Earth sits along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms. Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times ...

Milky Way is bringing back a previously discontinued fan-favorite with a new look and a new name, but all the same ingredients as the original. The simpler spinoff was such a hit that it earned its ...

So it’s confession time: I’ve been lying to you. I’ve said on many occasions that our Milky Way galaxy has a flat disk (like in this column or this one). But it’s not really flat—not even for a ...

Researchers using new simulations suggest that the Milky Way’s past collisions may have reshaped its dark matter core. This distorted structure could naturally explain the puzzling gamma-ray glow long ...

This is a human-written story voiced by AI. Got feedback? Take our survey. (See our AI policy here.) A ribbon of red splotches interspersed with blue dots marks the largest, most detailed image of the ...

Astronomers have created a new colorized radio view of the Milky Way's galactic plane. Credit: International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research Astronomers in Australia have created the largest and ...

Natasha Hurley-Walker receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Silvia Mantovanini does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

Researchers may have identified what could be a compelling clue in the ongoing hunt to prove the existence of dark matter. A mysterious diffuse glow of gamma rays near the center of the Milky Way has ...

The Milky Way galaxy is like a gigantic ocean gyre or eddy that spins and wobbles around its center. But our home galaxy also has a colossal wave rippling through it, pulling and pushing an ocean of ...