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

Astronomers have just discovered two dwarf galaxy candidates orbiting our galaxy. The orientation of these entities suggests ...

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

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

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

The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space toward each other at a speed of about 250,000 miles per hour (400,000 kph), setting up a possible future ...

“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.

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.

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

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.