On a clear night, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy look like close neighbors. In space, they really are.

For years, astronomers have observed the strange motion of Andromeda, the Milky Way’s closest large galactic neighbor. While ...

Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the night sky.

The three blue supergiants forming Orion’s Belt are prominent winter sky markers, visible worldwide and aligned along the Milky Way, according to Space.com.

They slip through your skin, your walls, and the whole Earth without leaving a mark. Neutrinos earn the nickname “ghost ...

For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...

The theory explains the violent dance of stars around the galactic center.

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide the deepest-ever view of this ...

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...

What can the gamma ray light emitted by the Milky Way Galaxy teach scientists about the existence of dark matter? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Letters hopes to address as a ...

New radio observations of the Milky Way are exposing hidden patterns in its magnetic field. People have scanned the night sky ...

People will be able to catch a glimpse of the Milky Way galaxy this weekend The Milky Way will be viewable with the naked eye, but telescopes always help The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc ...