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 ...

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 ...

These objects were actually the Andromeda and Messier 33 galaxies, the closest large galaxies to our Milky Way. Today, up to ...

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

The name for our galaxy comes from the ancient Greek words for ‘milk’ or ‘milky’. They could only see it as a bright band of ...

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 ...

For years, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form and evolve. But new research ...

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