Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night ... of those vast spiral arms of stars and dust clouds.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

A star has been spotted shooting away from the heart of our galaxy at around 500 kilometres per second, giving astronomers ...

To make this discovery, researchers traced the paths with ultra-fine precision of 21 stars on the outskirts of the Milky Way. These stars are traveling so fast that they will escape the ...

It was a grand sight to see, the Milky Way stretching across the sky behind Owachomo Bridge. It was a natural subject for the opening spread of "Our Vanishing Night ... and the stars will start ...

For the more than 100,000 years, humans have been on Earth, we have looked up at night and seen the stars and our celestial home, the Milky Way galaxy ... into the sky. Lights help us see on ...

However, our own Milky Way is on a path to collide with its giant neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. The next galactic merger of roughly 250 billion stars moving through space ... position in the cosmos.

Within the Milky Way itself there are hypervelocity stars that probably originated here ... sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light ...

Eliana Gorov didn't have to go far from her home in Las Vegas to view the Milky Way with her naked eyes. When she peered through a telescope during Great Basin National Park's astronomy program, she ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a huge number of faint stars ... images of the night sky using a light-sensitive ...

When she peered through a telescope during Great Basin National Park's astronomy program, she saw her first shooting star. "The Milky Way seemed ... of awe from the night sky, with 60% of ...