Milky Way Linked to Huge Cosmic Structures That Test Modern Cosmology Boundaries, New Study Suggests As humans’ understanding ...

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.

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

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

New research suggests that the Milky Way should be surrounded by as many as 100 undetected tiny and faint "orphan" galaxy ...

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

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.

Our Milky Way galaxy may be surrounded by 100 undetected 'orphan' galaxies; Our galactic neighbor Andromeda has a bunch of satellite galaxies — and they're weirdly pointing at us; ...

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.

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.