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 ...

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 ...

And, if the timing is right, you might even see a hazy belt stretched across the sky—the starry, dusty core of our very own Milky Way galaxy. Right now is a peak time for United States-based ...

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

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...

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

"Clusters rich in red supergiants are very rare and tend to be very far away, but they play a crucial role in understanding key aspects in the evolution of massive stars." In the past, map makers ...

Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space — so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor ...

It was only by removing the signature of the Milky Way's bend itself that the remaining variations in star positions suggested some kind of abnormality may even be present. "The warp and the wave ...