You’ll have to wait until the sky is quite dark to begin our Milky Way Summer Road Trip, which means staying up or getting up at round 1 am. Then, facing the northeast, you’ll see a thumbnail ...

The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to go from one end of our home galaxy to the other.

Milky Way photos: See images of our galaxy making itself visible around the globe Here's everything to know about our Milky Way, including how to see the stunning natural phenomenon.

"This doesn’t mean that as soon as the sun goes down you can see the Milky Way," writes Dan Zafra, co-founder of Capture the Atlas. "Even if it’s in the sky, the Milky Way will be barely ...

The Milky Way is readily visible without the use of a telescope or high-powered binoculars. But if you have them, magnification devices will let you get a closer look at various points of interest.

We are not alone—at least as a galaxy. About 50 dwarf galaxies surround the Milky Way. But when its intense gravity inevitably draws them to venture too close, they will probably be annihilated ...

The Milky Way's band arches over the Cerro Pachón mountaintop, as if connecting the Rubin Auxiliary Telescope (on the left) with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (on the right).

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years If you've never gotten a good luck at the Milky Way galaxy, you'll have that opportunity on Fourth of ...

The Milky Way's true shape—implied in its riverlike path across the sky—offers an important clue as well. If our galaxy were a huge spherical structure of stars with Earth near its center, its ...

Ten billion years ago, the Milky Way encountered another galaxy in the vast emptiness of space, and consumed it. Dubbed Gaia-Enceladus by astronomers, this stranger was roughly one-quarter the ...

At Last, the Milky Way Gets a Better Close Up The largest catalog ever collected by a single telescope maps Earth’s 3 billion stellar neighbors—and helps track the dust that warps how we see them.

The 3-D Milky Way map was created using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space probe that’s been scanning the stars since 2013. The hope is that the map will shed new light on the ...