The Milky Way is an iconic fixture of the night sky for Australians, but if looking at it makes you feel dizzy it could be because distinct parts of the system are spinning in different directions.

This led the astronomers to suggest that the Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy with just two main arms extending from this dense central bar. NGC 1300, a barred spiral galaxy with two arms ...

The Milky Way shines above Valle de la Luna — meaning "Valley of the moon" — in the Chilean Atacama Desert, close to where the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is located.

Stock image of the Milky Way and the Dark River. CHAO-FENG LIN/iStock / Getty Images Plus. The present study builds upon Graur's previous work on ancient Egyptian depictions of the Milky Way ...

Scientists Just Found the First Evidence of the Milky Way on an Ancient Egyptian Sarcophagus. ... a band of dust and gas that appears to split the Milky Way in two.