With the Milky Way itself measuring about 100,000 light-years across, the researchers noted that this stellar desert comprises a lot of empty space. Get the Space.com Newsletter ...

High above the Las Vegas Strip, solar panels blanketed the roof of Mandalay Bay Convention Center — 26,000 of them, rippling across an area larger than 20 football fields. From this vantage ...

The Milky Way serves as a celestial pathway between two telescopes in a stunning image from Chile's Atacama Desert. The telescopes are part of La Silla Observatory, a facility of the European ...

The 2024 collection of the Milky Way photographer of the year has just been released, showing the galaxy in stunning scenery around the world.