See the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the Milky Way galaxy in this time-lapse view from the International Space Station.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...