Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s ...

The Andromeda galaxy, our closest spiral neighbor to the Milky Way, becomes prominently visible in the night sky during ...

The nearby dwarf galaxy Segue 1 is exceptionally faint for its mass, which has puzzled astronomers almost since its discovery. A new paper proposes this could be because it hosts a ridiculously ...

For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Scientists reportedly spotted a comet the size of Manhattan flying through the Milky Way galaxy, marking the third time an object from outside the galaxy has been spotted in the ...

Time is running out to see the iconic band of stars that comprise the center of the Milky Way. Our galaxy is positively teeming with billions of billions of stars that routinely become bright and ...

For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious ...

A gamma ray glow at our galaxy’s center has puzzled scientists for almost two decades. New computer simulations back the ...

It is well known that the Milky Way rotates around a supermassive black hole, but researchers have found that our galaxy undulates up and down as well like a giant galactic merry-go-round. Katia ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

The Milky Way could be coming to a sky near you. The billions of stars comprising our home galaxy should appear especially vibrant in late-May as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...