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

The Milky Way galaxy is our cosmic home. A barred spiral galaxy stretching 100,000 light-years across. Here we explore our galactic neighborhood in more detail.

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 ...