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

Astronomers have been baffled for decades by a cosmic deficit: the Milky Way’s calculated entourage of satellite galaxies is ...

Anyone trotting out the well-worn "it’s been a long day" line on July 22 might end up having to rephrase, as Earth is set for ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

Less famous but just as unforgettable, these state parks showcase iconic landscapes without the long lines at America’s ...

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

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

Though it appears as a softly glowing cloud against the darker sky, what we see is so much more remarkable. This is the rim of our galaxy’s disk arching across the sky. Its hazy appearance, of course, ...

The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.

Previously discontinued Milky Way Crispy Rolls have returned to stores across the UK, including Home Bargains, Spar, and Poundland.

It's the so-called "Milky Way season" in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about viewing the galaxy's core this summer.

The name given to the Milky Way in Finnish, for example, is linnunrata, bird’s track. In Egyptian mythology, Nut also played a key role in guiding a deceased king on his journey to the sky to ...