"For the first time, we could trace the boundary between the gas residing in galaxies and the material contained within the ...

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

The strange behavior of hypervelocity stars suggests a nearby dwarf galaxy must contain a supermassive black hole. If so, a ...

"It's only because this object is so extreme that we can observe it from Earth, even though it's really far away," Anniek ...

What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the Andromeda Galaxy? Bryan ...

In a nutshell A rare cosmic alignment has given astronomers an unprecedented view of two galaxies from 7 billion years ago, ...

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of public and scientists alike and, as the search continues for more, researchers ...

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

The Bullseye galaxy earned its nickname thanks to its wild number of rings. A smaller galaxy shot through its heart 50 ...