Looking for places where the Milky Way actually looks like a spilled galaxy, not a smudge over parking-lot lights? These ten ...

The Milky Way is a rich and complex environment. We see it as a luminous line stretching across the night sky, composed of ...

Astronomers have unveiled the largest low-frequency radio color image of the Milky Way ever created, offering a sprawling, ...

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 ...

A new study suggests the Milky Way’s gamma-ray glow could be a dark matter signal shaped by ancient galactic mergers.

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Astronomers recently discovered a never-before-seen celestial phenomenon hiding in our own cosmic backyard. The mystery object, located just a short 15,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. When will the Milky Way collide with the Andromeda Galaxy?

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