The best time to view the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere is from March to September. The Milky Way, our home galaxy ...

What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...

In Part 2 of his story, Benita Albert tells of astronomer Bob Benjamin's career, including teaching and now being a NASA ...

The Milky Way will be more visible in the night-time sky across Michigan in the coming days, experts from NASA say, as we experience a new moon this month. The billions of stars comprising our home ...

Scientists from Helsinki, Durham and Toulouse universities used data from NASA's Hubble and the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescopes to simulate how the Milky Way and Andromeda will evolve ...

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op. Milky Way season, when the galaxy's bright ...

The Milky Way's core will be visible to stargazers in the southern hemisphere, including Tennessee, this month and throughout August. No special equipment is needed to view the galaxy, just a dark sky ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has upended expectations again, revealing a massive spiral galaxy in the universe’s infancy that looks strikingly like a young Milky Way. Instead of a chaotic, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. When will the Milky Way collide with the Andromeda Galaxy?

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...