Arizona is an ideal spot to see the Milky Way thanks to its numerous dark-sky places. Here's the best time to see - and ...

Just last week, for instance, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

Gaia’s all-sky view of our Milky Way galaxy and neighboring galaxies, based on measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars in the mission’s first two years of taking data.

Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...

The team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over half of the simulated scenarios, Andromeda and the Milky Way experience at ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space toward each other at a speed of about 250,000 miles per hour (400,000 kph), setting up a possible future ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.

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

Sawala’s international team relied on the latest observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the European Space Agency’s Gaia star-surveying spacecraft to simulate the possible scenarios facing ...