The Milky Way is one of billions of galaxies in the universe and home to our own solar system. It appears as a hazy band in the sky when viewed from Earth.

Peering deep into the dusty heart of our Milky Way galaxy using infrared vision, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals a rich tapestry of more than half a million stars. The Milky Way Galaxy ...

The Milky Way got its name from the way it looks from the ground: like a streak of spilt milk across the sky. That hazy white band is made up of stars, dust and gas. It looks like a flat stripe ...

The lab released a new image of two galaxies merging, which teases the fate of the Milky Way. The galactic merger is located around 60 million light-years away from Earth. In the image ...

Two images of the Milky Way galaxy. The top is captured with visible light and the bottom is the first-ever captured with neutrinos. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope conducted a remarkable experiment by focusing for 10 straight days on a seemingly empty, dark patch of sky near the Big Dipper, roughly the size of a pinhead held ...