New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

Scientists predict up to 100 invisible galaxies may orbit the Milky Way, hiding just beyond our current detection limits.

There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to ...

Our sun and the planets that circle it are part of a galaxy called the Milky Way. Its name comes from the Greek galaxias kyklos (“milky circle”) and Latin via lactea (“milky road”). Find a remote area ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

Our solar system resides in the spiral Milky Way (MW) Galaxy. American astronomer Edwin Hubble (1889-1953) is credited with discovering the shape and scope of it, so named because it looks like a ...

Our galactic home in the cosmos — the Milky Way — is merely one among the observable Universe’s two trillion. From our own perspective on Earth, we’ve identified the presence of spiral arms.

Find out all the science of the Milky Way, including the size of our home galaxy, ... The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, one of hundreds of billions in the observable universe.

A new interactive map will show you the entire observable universe using data from the Sloan Digital Sky ... I mean our galaxy, the Milky Way which has billions of stars and planets,” Ménard ...

We know a lot about our Milky Way Galaxy’s location in the universe thanks to efforts to map the distances to nearby galaxies. Our galaxy is a member of the Local Group — a small collection of ...

Is it possible for us to be looking out into space, and be seeing the Milky Way at an earlier time? How do we know if that's not the case?