Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.

The Solar System, home to Earth and countless other fascinating planets and moons, exists within the Milky Way galaxy. But ...

At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...

Astronomers have identified a vast, previously unknown structure in our galaxy that could change how scientists understand ...

"One day soon we may be able to see these 'missing' galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about how ...

There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to ...

Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological ...

The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.

You’ll have to wait until the sky is quite dark to begin our Milky Way Summer Road Trip, which means staying up or getting up at round 1 am. Then, facing the northeast, you’ll see a thumbnail ...

The Milky Way is readily visible without the use of a telescope or high-powered binoculars. But if you have them, magnification devices will let you get a closer look at various points of interest.

We are not alone—at least as a galaxy. About 50 dwarf galaxies surround the Milky Way.But when its intense gravity inevitably draws them to venture too close, they will probably be annihilated.

GOBBLE GOBBLE The young Milky Way, shown in an artist’s impression, swallowed a smaller galaxy about 10 billion years ago.The smaller galaxy’s stars are shown with yellow arrows depicting ...