Need new artwork in your home? How about one that you build yourself? LEGO’s Art lineup has some really cool sets that are ...

Astronomers have determined that VVV CL001, a metal-poor globular cluster near the center of the Milky Way, is about 13.4 ...

What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during "Milky Way season" as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...

The Milky Way is home to hundreds of billions of stars arranged in a glorious spiral pattern. But beyond the obvious spiral, ...

A region of glowing gas in the Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way galaxy, NGC 3576 is located about 9,000 light years from Earth. Such nebulas present a tableau of the drama of the evolution of massive ...

Can you see the Milky Way galaxy from Earth? Yes! And as stargazers and skywatchers know, it's a stunning sight to see. Comprised of billions of stars, the Milky Way galaxy got its name because from ...

The SAGA Survey just published three new research articles that provide us with new insights into the uniqueness of our own Milky Way Galaxy after completing the census of 101 satellite systems ...

386160 01: An image produced by the Hubble telescope of the perfectly "edge-on" galaxy, or NGC 4013 , March 1, 2001. This new Hubble picture reveals, with great detail, huge clouds of dust and gas ...

Astrophysicists for the first time have calculated the original mass and size of a dwarf galaxy that was shredded in a collision with the Milky Way billions of years ago. Reconstructing the original ...