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

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

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

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 ...

New research suggests that the Milky Way should be surrounded by as many as 100 undetected tiny and faint "orphan" galaxy ...

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 ...

Every year, thousands of people visit Summit County to experience all the beauty that the Colorado Rocky Mountains have to ...

This photo taken on July 22, 2025 shows the Milky Way in Jiangwan Town of the Mongolian Autonomous County of Dorbod in Daqing ...

A surprising discovery at the heart of the Milky Way is forcing scientists to rethink how massive structures called Fermi ...

Though it appears as a softly glowing cloud against the darker sky, what we see is so much more remarkable. This is the rim of our galaxy’s disk arching across the sky. Its hazy appearance, of course, ...