Our solar system exists in one of the Milky Way's smaller spiral arms — the Orion-Cygnus arm — which radiates out from the center of the galaxy. While we can use our vantage point to view ...

Stargazers accustomed to scanning the Milky Way galaxy may notice something odd overhead this month: barely any milk in that way.

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way ...

The Milky Way is one of billions of galaxies in the universe and home to our own solar system. It appears as a hazy band in the sky when viewed from Earth.

An international team has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date. This ultra-massive system ... solar masses in stars. This makes it one of the most compelling Milky Way ...

The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy ... as well as the Galaxy’s central bulge and its satellite galaxies. As filming extended over several months, objects from the Solar System came and went ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say. The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar system was touted more than a century ago.

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This "twin" of the Milky Way existed just 1 billion years after the ...

Unfortunately, Earth — and the vast majority of the planets in the galaxy — just aren’t in the right position ... solar system resides in the galaxy, riding the edge of one of the Milky Way ...

The galaxy spans more than 60,000 light-years across and contains over 100 billion solar masses in stars, making it one of the most compelling analogues of the Milky Way ever found from such an ...

She also was pivotal to the solar cycle, swallowing the sun at ... Nut may also have had yet another important association: with the Milky Way galaxy itself. His latest theories are laid out ...