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

Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they were independent galaxies, extremely large and distant. At the time, the ...

This is what our Milky Way galaxy looks like when viewed with neutrinos ... The result: an excess of 79 neutrinos over the background, with a statistical significance of 4.2 sigma.

Astronomers have detected in the stellar halo that represents the Milky Way's outer limits a group of stars more distant from Earth than any known within our own galaxy - almost halfway to a ...