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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

25-Sep-2024 at 1:05 PM EDT, by University of Utah Newswise — Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer this question more than a ...

A team of astronomers may have detected the gamma-ray signature produced when antimatter particles, or positrons, collide with electrons outside of the Milky Way for the first time. The findings, ...

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?

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 ...