A ghostly white river is coursing over the continent this month. It isn’t fog, and it isn’t cloud. It’s the packed heart of ...

"I think that the undulating curve represents the Milky Way and could be a representation of the Great Rift — the dark band of dust that cuts through the Milky Way's bright band of diffused ...

It appears to match the Great Rift, which is the band of interstellar dust that seems to bisect the Milky Way. Deepening our view of nut. While Nut was often pictured as the entire Egyptian night sky, ...

The brightest region of the galaxy visible within the Summer Triangle is the Cygnus Star Cloud; also visible is the dark Great Rift, made up of light-blocking dust. Sunrise: 5:32 A.M. Sunset: 8:26 ...

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

New data show a 50% chance the Milky Way won't collide with Andromeda. A merger with the Large Magellanic Cloud is far more likely.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two ...

“Long-exposure photos make the Milky Way’s bright stars and dark dust clouds even clearer. And while our eyes see it in ...

In roughly 4 billion years, our home Milky Way galaxy may collide with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. We are approaching Andromeda at roughly 250,000 miles per hour, and scientists have ...