Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...

Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it's so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful ...

The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth.

The finding came courtesy of scientists who propose a novel way to map dark matter using the "wobble" of the Milky Way. That wobble is due to the influence of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies ...

The Milky Way, too, moves in space relative to other ... The atmosphere would still be moving at the original speed of the Earth's rotation. This means that everything would be swept off of ...

On the left side of the animation, numbers indicate the speeds of Earth's rotation, its orbit around the sun, the solar system's orbit around the Milky Way's center, and the galaxy hurtling ...

New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a huge number of faint stars. For the next 300 years, astronomers assumed that the ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville ...