Our Galactic home just got a remodel. Peering through the dust and gas that intersperse our Galaxy, astronomers have found that the Milky Way’s core is less dense than originally thought.

If you look up on a clear night from a darksky location, you might see the Milky Way as a faint band of thousands of stars.

The Milky Way contains between 100 billion and 400 billion stars, but the exact number is difficult to determine due to the ...

“Most of the Milky Way satellites have very ancient star populations. They stopped forming stars about 10 billion years ago,” said Marco Arias, the lead author of the study, in the same release.

Researchers discover high-velocity clouds in the nearby spiral galaxy M83. These clouds are moving at speeds significantly ...

The “Red Monsters” are nearly as large as the Milky Way and create stars at a rate faster than most discovered galaxies. NASA/CSA/ESA, M. Xiao & P. A. Oesch (University of Geneva), G. Brammer ...

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Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal.. It has grown by consuming other galaxies.Yet, it too, may be destined to collide and merge with an even bigger galaxy: Andromeda.Though galaxy collisions are ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his ...

The Milky Way is our galaxy, a massive system made of stars, gas and dust. It is estimated to contain more than 100 billion stars and is about 100,000 light-years across.