An interest in understanding the role that the Milky Way played in Egyptian culture and religion has led University of ...

More stars are visible than you can imagine, and the Milky Way arches across the sky ... Even amidst the most breathtaking earthly scenery of the Grand Canyon, the night sky stole the show.

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish, pinkish and bluish-white arc across the night sky, but this new super-long exposure image from South Africa's ground-based MeerKAT ...

The new image is an up-close view of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors. The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest ...

Canadian photographer Scott Aspinall and his team took on a challenging journey to photograph the Milky Way over a remote waterfall ... showcase the breath-taking scenery. Chancellor Rachel ...

Led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara, the team has discovered that the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, may be getting torn apart by the gravitation pull ...

stunning scenery that includes the moon and even the Milky Way. They’re also regularly treated to aurora, an amazing natural light display caused by the interaction of solar winds with Earth’s ...

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...

High-velocity clouds are thought to be material that is being pulled into another galaxy, in this case the Milky Way, and many are thought to be made of material left over from another galaxy that ...

The Milky Way rotates counterclockwise, putting it in the minority. These findings are surprising because if the universe is random, as previously thought, "there should be an approximately equal ...