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

See the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the Milky Way galaxy in this time-lapse view from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA | edited by Space.com ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

You’ll have to wait until the sky is quite dark to begin our Milky Way Summer Road Trip, which means staying up or getting up at round 1 am. Then, facing the northeast, you’ll see a thumbnail ...

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.

There's amusing redundancy in calling it the Milky Way galaxy, as many do. (Mea culpa: I'm guilty, too.) Like many others such as the galaxy NGC 6744 ( right ), the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy.

Columnist Justice B. Hill remembers the magic of starry nights from his youth and mourns how light and air pollution have ...

GOBBLE GOBBLE The young Milky Way, shown in an artist’s impression, swallowed a smaller galaxy about 10 billion years ago.The smaller galaxy’s stars are shown with yellow arrows depicting ...