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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

An international team of scientists have provided an unprecedented tally of elemental sulfur spread between the stars using ...

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 ...

A stronomers have discovered that the Milky Way might be just a small piece of a much larger cosmic structure than previously ...

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