New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

I began photographing the Milky Way around 2018, but the hobby took off in earnest for me at the onset of the COVID years as ...

The study measured where and how fast 77 of Andromeda’s compact star clusters—called globular clusters—are moving to work out where they came from. Even when the Milky Way and Andromeda ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now ...

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety ... Then, all you'd need to do to work out how far away the star is would ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Summer is the best time of year for seeing the Milky Way from the northern hemisphere—and parts of August are the very best.