Researchers have found that there's something highly unusual about the Milky Way, setting it apart from other galaxies. As ...

On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...

The star, situated in a galaxy orbiting our own tens of thousands of light-years away, may be on the verge of a spectacular ...

Astronomers have long used the Milky Way as a benchmark for studying galaxy formation and evolution, assuming that its ...

Research shows that galaxies form inside gigantic haloes of dark matter, the elusive substance that doesn't interact with ...

"What in the Milky Way caused these small, lower-mass satellites to have their star formation quenched?" The findings suggest our galaxy's evolutionary history is strikingly different, setting it ...

For decades, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form. But three new studies raise ...

In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully.

Scientists have finally imaged a star outside of the Milky Way for the first time. Here's what it looks like and how they did ...

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over the intense heat and persistence of the fiery hot gas surrounding the Milky Way.

WOH G64 is what's known as a red giant, a star nearing the end of its life, running out of hydrogen fuel. Through this ...