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

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

Take a journey through the Milky Way galaxy, exploring the wonders of our solar system and the distant stars that illuminate the night sky. The Milky Way is home to over 100 billion stars, each with ...

Greetings, stargazers. Emission nebulae are the subject of many of the most spectacular astrophotographs published in the last decade. Although there are many subcategories of nebulae, they all ...

The Milky Way could be home to more galaxies than initially thought, scientists at Durham University discovered.

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before seen.

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all.

Astronomers now believe the Milky Way’s “inevitable” collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally thought.

The long-proposed Milky Way and Andromeda galactic merger might not be as certain as astronomers previously believed.