Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.

Scientists have long studied the vast and mysterious web-like structure of our universe, filled with clusters, filaments, and ...

An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

Did you know that nearly 80% of the world’s population lives under light-polluted skies, unable to see the Milky Way with the ...

Milky Way images from NASA’s Hubble Telescope show stars, nebulae, and galaxies., Technology & Science, Times Now ...

At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...

There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to astronomers.

Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological ...

"This doesn’t mean that as soon as the sun goes down you can see the Milky Way," writes Dan Zafra, co-founder of Capture the Atlas. "Even if it’s in the sky, the Milky Way will be barely ...

The Milky Way is readily visible without the use of a telescope or high-powered binoculars. But if you have them, magnification devices will let you get a closer look at various points of interest.

We are not alone—at least as a galaxy. About 50 dwarf galaxies surround the Milky Way. But when its intense gravity inevitably draws them to venture too close, they will probably be annihilated ...

The Milky Way's true shape—implied in its riverlike path across the sky—offers an important clue as well. If our galaxy were a huge spherical structure of stars with Earth near its center, its ...