The Milky Way looks serene from our vantage point, a hazy river of light arcing across the night sky. Yet the stars that make ...
Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...
The Milky Way galaxy, comprised of billions of stars, will be visible in the night sky until the end of May, particularly between the last quarter moon (May 20) and the new moon (May 30). Light ...
The search for intelligent life in our galaxy is shifting from abstract speculation to detailed cartography, as researchers ...
Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...
This is an image of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the nearest galaxies to our Milky Way, as viewed by ESA’s Gaia satellite using information from the mission’s second data release. This ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A panoramic image of the Milky Way over the fromations of ...