Deneb, Vega and Altair are among the brightest stars in the night sky.

For the study, the researchers analyzed 214 of the most massive stars in the Milky Way.

Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...

Using the Baryons Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) spectrograph, astronomers have discovered five new carbon-enhanced ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds clues about when it formed and what the galaxy was like at the time. Over ...

For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...

We might be on track to hit a supermassive black hole a lot sooner than anyone expected. Tucked away inside the Large ...

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 ...

Stargazing dreams come true at this Pennsylvania park, with pitch-dark skies that reveal the Milky Way in stunning detail.