The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic ...

New research, utilizing data from the Gaia space telescope, suggests that the Milky Way's last significant collision occurred ...

Astronomers have examined the Extreme Outer Galaxy, also known as the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy, using the ...

The moon was not in view during the crew’s orbit in the night portions — which meant the Milky Way’s main belt was bright ...

Fall officially began with the autumnal equinox at 8:43 a.m. Eastern time on Sunday. It marked the time of year when we see ...

The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy may already be colliding after it was discovered that galaxies may have gas halos far ...

Now, the powerful space telescope has pushed it to the edge closer to home in our very own galaxy, the Milky Way. A team of ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

New observations from the MeerKAT radio survey suggest our estimates of the cosmic dipole effect are actually in line with ...

The universe might not be as you think. Until recently, the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model seemed to have a lock on cosmology.

It is almost 100 years since scientists discovered the universe is expanding. In the decades that followed, the accuracy of ...

In September, the sky gets dark significantly earlier, allowing us to observe the night sky without having to stay up too ...