Learn how many stars there are in the Milky Way, and how astronomers count them.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...

For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

This image captures a richly detailed section of the Milky Way, showcasing a tapestry of stars and glowing nebulas. Against a black cosmic backdrop, countless white stars sparkle like scattered ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.

You still may be able to spot the Milky Way's galactic center in the night sky across the US, but time is running out.

The Milky Way galaxy is like a gigantic ocean gyre or eddy that spins and wobbles around its center. But our home galaxy also ...

CANBERRA, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- A world-first discovery of binary stars, pairs of stars orbiting a common center of gravity, could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy ...

New research shows that dark matter has a different distribution in our galaxy than previously thought, and that advances ...

Johns Hopkins researchers may have identified a compelling clue in the ongoing hunt to prove the existence of dark matter. A ...