Many places claim dark-sky status, but few can deliver a darkness so pristine that you can see the Milky Way without a telescope ... annual Death Valley Dark Sky Festival. This year, the free ...

A dazzling display of the Milky Way at Cuckmere Haven and a hauntingly beautiful shot of the legendary Chanctonbury Ring are among the winners of a South Downs competition.

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

In a desperate attempt to make money, she goes to work for “The Milky Way,” a breast milk dairy that provides rich mothers ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...