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 ...

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

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 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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

the solar system and galaxies. This clip helps to reinforce the meaning of a galaxy, using the Milky Way as an example. Many students will have preconceptions about what dark matter is ...