The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral ...

With summer soon approaching, the Milky Way will become more visible in May, especially as the new moon makes the skies dark.

Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the ...

Find out where to catch the Milky Way's appearance in the night sky as it becomes more visible with the 2025 summer ...

Astronomers have observed two distant galaxies - both possessing roughly as many stars as our Milky Way - careening toward ...

The interstellar medium in our Milky Way galaxy is magnetic, can be compressed, and is turbulent. It affects important ...

UConn researchers develop a clearer 3D model of the galactic center (Adobe photo) Earth – our tiny blue dot in the galaxy – ...

The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and it's not alone. There is also likely a forest of binary ...

NASA's Chandra Observatory recently captured an X-ray image that helped identify a dramatic break in one of the galaxy's ...

the Milky Way has two main spiral arms — the Perseus and Scutum-Centaurus arms — and two less obvious arms, the Sagittarius ...