Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

Around 50 million years ago, a blue dwarf galaxy shot through the center of an enormous galaxy more than twice the size of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking image of an unusual galaxy with a bullseye structure, as nine rings ...

A recent NASA report suggests that countless tiny particles could be coming together to create an invisible, foam-like dark ...

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

Here’s how it works. Most of the atoms in your body likely spent millions of years circling the Milky Way on a cosmic "conveyor belt" before returning to our galaxy prior to the solar system's ...

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

Both also reside in an outer part of the Milky Way galaxy. They note that either or both could be dense clouds of gas or a type of star that has not been seen before. The latter possibility seems ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture hundreds of detailed images of our vast galactic ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

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 ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...