Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend over California when the Milky Way appears in the night ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, ...

A new study suggests they may have a ghostly shadow—trailing dark matter spirals hovering above and below them. A team of ...

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about ...

Created as a tribute to dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin, the image was created with the aid of a vast array of telescopes.

Published on June 23 first images of the new Vera Rubin Observatory, showing more than 10 million galaxies around the Virgo ...

Our planet itself is located along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms, about halfway from the center, according to NASA.. The Milky Way sits in a cosmic neighborhood called the Local Group that ...

COZMIC simulator crafted detailed models of the Milky Way to investigate dark matter and how the universe might behave under ...

This galaxy, shaped like our Milky Way, formed just a billion years after the Big Bang. ... Its spiral arms span 19,000 parsecs, or about 62,000 light-years.