The Milky Way’s farthest spiral arms have long been sketched more from motion than measurement. Now three violent explosions ...

The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescopes have spotted the aftermath of three bright ...

If you want to pinpoint your place in the universe, start with your cosmic address. You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky Way Galaxy->Local Cluster->Virgo Cluster->Virgo Supercluster->Laniakea.

A vast, but previously unknown structure has been discovered around our own Milky Way galaxy by an international team of astronomers. The announcement is being made on behalf of Drs. Annette Ferguson, ...

As a galactic archaeologist, my job is to reconstruct the past of our galaxy – and read the signs of its future.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Our home galaxy might be larger than we first assumed, astronomers have ...

On clear nights, the Milky Way appears vast beyond imagination, stretching like a river of stars across the darkness. Yet modern astronomy has revealed a humbling truth: our galaxy is only a tiny part ...

In a mysterious region of the sky known as the "zone of avoidance" veiled by our own galaxy's thick bulge, researchers have found a massive "extragalactic structure" hiding behind the Milky Way. As ...

98.5% of the Sun is made up of two light chemical elements, hydrogen and helium, while the remaining 1.5% consists of other heavier elements such as carbon, oxygen, and iron. The abundance of these ...

A team of researchers with members from Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and Universidad Andres Bello has found evidence of a large extragalactic assembly ...

Michigan residents can look up this Fourth of July weekend to see the Milky Way galaxy.

If you've been following the abundance of cosmic activity in June, tonight's new moon offers some of the best conditions of the month to see the Milky Way. A rare alignment in the moon phase is ...