The Milky Way as a laboratory for civilizations Any attempt to chart alien societies has to start with the structure of The Milky Way itself, a disk roughly 100,000 light years across with hundreds of ...

Throughout the many adventures of Star Trek, it's extremely rare that the Enterprise (or any other ship) leaves the Milky Way ...

Astrophysicist Benjamin Zuckerman concludes that no alien civilization has passed within 100 light-years of Earth in billions of years, based on the absence of alien probes or strong, continuous ...

"Milky Way season," when our galaxy's bright center is most visible, is now beginning in the Northern Hemisphere. The best time to see the Milky Way in the US is generally from March to September.

The Milky Way is at least 100,000 light-years across, but the new results suggest that the galaxy's star formation takes ...