Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

An unusual depiction of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut may include a representation of the "Dark River" or "Great Rift"—the band along the Milky Way caused by dust clouds. This is the ...

Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess Nut may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests.

Depictions of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess found on tombs and coffins dating back almost 5,000 years may represent a key feature of the Milky Way. After analyzing hundreds of images of the ...

But in the case of planets, it’s possible that most of ... year history offers a long time for shedding worlds into the Milky Way. But there very well could be galactic nomads wandering in ...

Led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara, the team has discovered that the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, may be getting torn apart by the gravitation pull ...

If you are away from city lights you’ll see the winter Milky Way stretching from the SSW horizon ... It’s a pyramid-shaped white glow on the western horizon about 90 minutes after sunset.

If you are away from city lights you’ll see the winter Milky Way stretching from the SSW horizon to the NNE horizon. PM Planets: Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury (through mid-month) ...

Roen Kelly Venus treks across the Milky Way and is easy to spot soon after sunset, starting the month at magnitude –4. Check out the planet an hour after sunset with Ophiuchus as a backdrop in ...

See that bright object in the sky? That's Andromeda – the closest major galaxy to our Milky Way and the most distant thing you can see with the naked eye. Miller Garner, Brett Gardner's son ...

Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it could change our understanding of how galaxies form. The galaxy ...