This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy ... and free-floating planets that don’t ...

The wonders of our galaxy are on full display in a new infrared map of the Milky Way, showing a stunning ... globular clusters, stars, planets, brown dwarfs, and other objects that make up our ...

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

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

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

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way ... of life "took the long way around" the galaxy before coming together ...

The night sky is putting on a celestial show with a dazzling "planetary parade" featuring six major planets and a bonus comet.