Something in the constellation Vela (a southern Milky Way region visible mainly from the Southern Hemisphere) looks a little like a brain floating in space. Astronomers have been calling it the ...

Billions of stars fill our galaxy that become visible at certain times of year. And in the U.S., that time, known as "Milky ...

Milky Way season is here and Alabama’s dark skies are ready to reveal the galaxy’s glittering core. Here's when and how to ...

Largest ever image obtained by specialist telescope in Chile represents scientific and aesthetic breakthrough ...

The Milky Way is not the serene, flat disc that textbook illustrations suggest. Astronomers have confirmed that the outer edges of our galaxy’s disc are warped and that this deformation rotates slowly ...

Astronomers have achieved a breakthrough in star formation research with the detection of protostellar jets in the outer regions of the Milky Way, a finding recently published in The Astrophysical ...

The Andromeda galaxy lies just beyond (...OK, about 2.5 million light-years beyond) our galaxy, the Milky Way. These galaxies are more than just neighbors: They're gravitationally bound. And for the ...

Milky Way season is here, bringing clearer views of our galaxy. Here's how to see it from Nevada.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artistic representation of the Milky Way, where the innermost stars move at near relativistic speeds (defined as velocities that ...

"The fact that there is only around a 50-50 chance of a merger was very surprising." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking ...