Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

Caption The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of our Milky Way black hole released in 2022, has captured a new view of the massive object at the center ...

And, if the timing is right, you might even see a ... of a summer Milky Way-spotting session. The Milky Way galaxy contains ...

Every star that you see in the sky is ... in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own.

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 ...

A recent NASA report suggests that countless tiny particles could be coming together to create an invisible, foam-like dark ...

Scientists have spotted the building blocks of RNA at the center of the Milky Way. They published their ... also shed more light on how life on other planets began, too. RNA, or ribonucleic ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for ... part of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard ...

There are around, well between 200 billion and 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy and the majority of those have planets orbiting ... up of the stars that we see shining in the sky.