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

Hubble has released a new image of Messier 30, known as M30, a globular cluster about 27,500 light-years away in the constellation Capricornus. NASA published the picture on Nov. 5 alongside a note ...

Simulations suggest the faintest galaxies near the Milky Way share one iron level because a single giant first star exploded in each.

It’s peak Milky Way season and all over the world astrophotographers are clamoring to capture magical shots of our galaxy. Every year in late May, travel photography blog Capture the Atlas releases ...

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

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger ...

At the end of August 2017, I traveled to Miyakojima in Okinawa Prefecture.The inspiration was a single sentence I saw on the ...

A spiral galaxy roughly 10 million light-years from Earth is offering astronomers a rare glimpse into the forces that shape ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Head away from city lights in late August to see the dense core of the Milky Way arcing towards the southwestern horizon against a ...

The new data released by the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has revealed the surprise phenomena of ‘starquakes’—massive ...

We are not alone—at least as a galaxy. About 50 dwarf galaxies surround the Milky Way. But when its intense gravity inevitably draws them to venture too close, they will probably be annihilated. It’s ...

In this 2012 visualization, the Andromeda galaxy (left) appears in Earth's skies and begins to distort the Milky Way as the two galaxies merge. This hypothetical scenario was previously expected to ...