Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.

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.

Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

“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.

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

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

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 ...

Scientists with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have unveiled a striking new image of our Milky Way galaxy as seen by ghost-like messenger particles called neutrinos. This new analysis ...

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 ...

The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a similar spiral ...

These "satellites" are smaller galaxies in both mass and size that orbit a larger galaxy, usually called the host galaxy. Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, a special place?