You’ll have to wait until the sky is quite dark to begin our Milky Way Summer Road Trip, which means staying up or getting up at round 1 am. Then, facing the northeast, you’ll see a thumbnail ...

The Milky Way is readily visible without the use of a telescope or high-powered binoculars. But if you have them, magnification devices will let you get a closer look at various points of interest.

"This doesn’t mean that as soon as the sun goes down you can see the Milky Way," writes Dan Zafra, co-founder of Capture the Atlas. "Even if it’s in the sky, the Milky Way will be barely ...

Space Our Milky Way isn’t as unique as we thought — there’s a twin galaxy 320 million light-years away Match made in space ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years If you've never gotten a good luck at the Milky Way galaxy, you'll have that opportunity on Fourth of ...

The Milky Way’s star output comes from regions like this, where compression and heating ignites new suns. In this false-color image, radiation from young stars causes the gas to glow orange and red.

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, in which a bar-shaped region at the center is surrounded by a disk of stars and gas clouds that exist mainly in its four spiral “arms.” ...

The Milky Way is a truly monstrous collection of more than 100 billion stars that stretches more than 100,000 light-years wide.

For perspective: The Milky Way's disk is about 100,000 light-years wide. Watkins is lead author of the new study, which has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.

We are not alone—at least as a galaxy. About 50 dwarf galaxies surround the Milky Way. But when its intense gravity inevitably draws them to venture too close, they will probably be annihilated ...

The Milky Way is telling its story now because it’s sick of being ignored. Once upon a time, humans looked to the glittering smudge of stars in the sky for insight into when to plant crops or ...

The “Milky Way window” in August, therefore, is when the night skies are free from bright moonlight. That’s always going to be between Last Quarter Moon and a few days after New Moon.