Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after ...

The Milky Way got its name from the way it looks from the ground: like a streak of spilt milk across the sky. That hazy white band is made up of stars, dust and gas. It looks like a flat stripe ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest ... They found that this background radiation was 1 million to 10 million times what stars experience in a modern star-forming region.