Latest about milky way galaxy
Space Probe Spots Weird Microwave Haze in Our Galaxy
The findings will help scientists construct a more detailed blueprint of the cosmos.
Milky Way's Color Is White As a Morning's Snow
The Milky Way, it turns out, has exactly the right name.
Hundreds of Alien Worlds Come Into View (Infographic)
NASA's Kepler space telescope is helping astronomers find planets all over our region of the Milky Way galaxy.
Why the Milky Way May Be Facing a Midlife Crisis
The Milky Way and its neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, seem to be slowing down their rates of star formation.
90-Year-Old Space Molecule Mystery Has New Clues
The source of these diffuse interstellar bands has been a mystery for nearly 100 years.
Sky & Telescopes
Four of the European Southern Observatory's Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) antennas gaze up at the night sky. Milky Way is visible at left.
Milky Way Owes Its Shape to Crashes With Dwarf Galaxy
The starry arms of our Milky Way galaxy had a violent birth.
Milky Way's Baby Stars Linked to Stellar Growth Spurt
The unique relationship between age and the pulsing of Cepheid variable stars allowed astronomers to determine that the star formation in the Milky Way more than tripled a few million years ago.
