Stitching together thousands of images, astronomers have created the most detailed ultraviolet light portraits of the Milky Way's two closest neighbors: the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Full story
An ultra-faint collection of 1,000 stars orbiting the Milky Way is the most lightweight galaxy ever discovered, scientists say. Full story
By pointing a powerful NASA space telescope away from our galaxy's star-studded core, astronomers are mapping the Milky Way's more sparsely populated outer fringes. Full story
INDIANAPOLIS — A nebula that shines about 5,500 light-years from Earth could be going through a "baby boom," according to a new study. Full story
INDIANAPOLIS — Our home in the Milky Way could be much larger than ever thought before, according to a new study. Full story
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A species of South African dung beetle has been shown to use the Milky Way to navigate, making it the only known animal that turns to the galactic spray of stars across the night sky for direction. Full story
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Imagery from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory reveals a pair of supermassive black holes in NGC 3393, a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way.
A supercomputer simulation produces a virtual spiral galaxy that comes close to matching the look of our own Milky Way. Msnbc.com's Alan Boyle reports.
Norwegian photographer Terje Sorgjerd speaks with TODAY.com’s Dara Brown about the stunning images of the Milky Way captured glittering in the night sky from Spain’s highest mountain, El Teide.
This NASA image released obtained April 1, 2013 shows W3, an enormous stellar nursery about 6,200 light-years away in the Perseus Arm, one of the Milky Way galaxy's main spiral arms, which hosts both low- and high-mass star formation. In this image from the Herschel space observatory, the low-mass f
An artist's concept is shown in this NASA handout released on March 18, 2013 shows the star V838 Mon. Mon's outer surface suddenly greatly expanded with the result that it became the brightest star in the entire Milky Way Galaxy in January 2002. Then, just as suddenly, it faded. A stellar flash like
A species of South African dung beetle is seen in this undated handout photo from University of the Witwatersrand released January 25, 2013. The species has been shown to use the Milky Way to navigate, making it the only known animal that turns to the galactic spray of stars across the night sky for
