However, the aurora borealis is far from the only celestial spectacle being snapped by photographers, and now, Capture The Atlas has produced its ninth annual edition of the Milky Way Photographer of ...

To find the end of the Milky Way, scientists looked to the outermost star-formation site, roughly 40,000 light-years from the ...

A new study suggests the Milky Way consumed an ancient dwarf galaxy billions of years ago, and its stellar remains may still be embedded within ours.

Astronomers have finally identified where the Milky Way’s star-making activity fades, uncovering a long-sought boundary in ...

The Vela Supercluster was discovered back in 2016, but astronomers just got to know about its true scale.

The Vela Supercluster, in our Milky Way's Zone of Avoidance, is competing gravitationally with other superclusters for the ...

This particular star system, dubbed Loki after the Norse god of trickery, was consumed by our own solar system billions of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger ...

Scientists have uncovered the true boundary of the Milky Way’s star-forming region using stellar “age mapping.” They found a ...

Astronomers have discovered another neighbour orbiting our home galaxy, the Milky Way — and it could be the faintest satellite dwarf galaxy discovered so far. Researchers from Tohoku University in ...

The Milky Way is at least 100,000 light-years across, but the new results suggest that the galaxy's star formation takes ...

Ever wondered why our galaxy is called the Milky Way? The name hints at ancient skies and the bright band we’ve long noticed overhead. Join me as we uncover what that name reveals about our place in t ...