Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

Cosmic archeologists have used the James Webb Space Telescope to excavate ancient disk galaxies that tell the story of how ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger ...

Using data from the Gaia space telescope, a team has shown that large parts of the Milky Way's outer disk vibrate. The ripples are caused by a dwarf galaxy, now seen in the constellation ...

Both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies (M31) are part of what's known as the Local Group (LG), which also hosts other ...

There are likely over 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, so this panorama is a deeply detailed sample of the galaxy as seen from Earth's Southern Hemisphere.Take a look: The first image below ...

A mystery star located at the heart of the Milky Way could very well be from another galaxy, new research shows. The star is known as an S-star, and it is part of a swarm of stars found near ...

Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...

An international team of astrophysicists has discovered hundreds of mysterious structures in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. These one-dimensional cosmic threads are hundreds of horizontal or ...

Stock image of a galaxy in space. A study has cast new light on the circumgalactic medium that surrounds galaxies like the Milky Way. Shawn PNW/500px/iStock/Getty Images Plus ...

This also revealed that, in some cases, carbon can be found up to 400,000 light-years outside its host galaxy — a distance around four times wider than the Milky Way. Sign up for the Live ...