An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

The Milky Way galaxy is our cosmic home. ... – Rotation time: 250 million years. Our home galaxy's disk is about 100,000 light-years in diameter and just 1000 light-years thick, ...

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...

Andromeda never looked as good as it does in a new image from the Chandra X-ray observatory and a range of powerful ...

This allowed him to capture various images of how the sky’s appearance changed as the Earth rotated, giving us different views of the Milky Way and the night sky as a whole.

The colossal black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning almost as fast as its maximum rotation rate ...

A new study done by physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that stars at the edge of the Milky Way travel more slowly than those closer to the center.

Alternative to fireworks? Stargazers could instead catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way ...