Earth and space mingle in stunning ways for the 2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest. From the “geological masterpiece” of Coyote Buttes, Utah to the sandstone terrain of desolate Ennedi, ...

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op ...

The Milky Way, the galaxy in which we live, gets its name from its milky-looking texture - which inspired a Greek myth that a ...

A planetary system described as abnormal, chaotic, and strange by researchers has come into clearer view with NASA's James ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the ...

New data show a 50% chance the Milky Way won't collide with Andromeda. A merger with the Large Magellanic Cloud is far more ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...