While radio waves are the method of choice when searching for signals of intelligent alien life, other detectable signs also ...

What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The ...

Scientists have developed a new and improved method to better understand "steam world" exoplanets, a move that could refocus ...

A new proposal from astrophysicist Professor Heidi Newberg at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute could change the way ...

The Milky Way is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky throughout the United States, ...

The mystery object, located just a short 15,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy, was spotted emitting unusual pulses.

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

This animation depicts the collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy, which will merge into a single galaxy.

What you're looking at when the Milky Way is visible is the bright center of our galaxy with billions of stars. Because visibility from Earth depends on the latitude, the further south you go, the ...

For 75 years, scientists have consistently pondered the Fermi Paradox, which asks why we don’t hear from other civilizations when there are so many Earth-like worlds in the galaxy. A recent ...