The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has already uncovered two previously unknown companions of the Milky Way using preliminary observations covering just 7% of the night sky. The discoveries include an ...

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

Uncover how Gaia data reveals the Milky Way’s two-stage disk formation, explaining why its oldest stars formed in a thicker, ...

Photographer Jason Kurth captured the lesser-seen Milky Way, in New York anyway, from the Top of the Rock. A photographer has captured a magnificent timelapse of the Milky Way above New York City ...

In the early days of the universe, our home looked very different than it does today. Back then, the region in our universe that would eventually become our Milky Way neighborhood was a collection of ...

The best time to see the Milky Way's bright center in the Northern Hemisphere is ending soon. "Milky Way season" generally runs from March to September in the United States. California is home to ...

The best time to see the Milky Way's bright center in the Northern Hemisphere is ending soon. "Milky Way season" generally runs from March to September in the United States. Dark skies away from city ...

Astronomers have reconstructed detailed three-dimensional maps of two enormous protoclusters seen when the universe was only about 2.1 billion years old, revealing multiple dense clumps connected to ...

Euclid was built to investigate one of the biggest mysteries in modern science: the invisible matter and energy believed to dominate the Universe. Its first observations have already revealed hundreds ...

A 20-year-old college student from Steele County was crowned Princess Kay of the Milky Way on the eve of the 2026 Minnesota State Fair. Jena Hanson was crowned the 73rd Princess Kay of the Milky Way ...