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

A cosmic drama is unfolding at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is watching the story ...

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

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

If the sky is dark and the moon is not too bright, and if you know exactly where to look, you can just barely see the ...

If you thought that the Milky Way was just your average run-of-the-mill galaxy, you’d be wrong. Turns out that it’s quite the ...

The Milky Way bar is a classic - you've probably had a few in your time. But where did it all start? To answer that, we have ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a surprising new view of a long-studied galactic neighbor, the Sombrero galaxy, ...

"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 ...

Astronomers often use the Milky Way as a standard for studying how galaxies form and evolve. Since we’re inside it, ...