Twin orbs of superhot plasma at the Milky Way's center known as the "Fermi bubbles" contain inexplicable clouds of cold ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We asked ourselves: How can we make sense of this?" ...

New research suggests that the Milky Way should be surrounded by as many as 100 undetected tiny and faint "orphan" galaxy ...

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

A cosmic void could be distorting how we see the universe expand. Sound from the Big Bang may hold the clues. According to astronomers, Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be located within a ...

Very massive stars (VMSs) have had a massive impact on the formation of our universe. However, there aren't very many of them ...

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

A new study has found that the moths, with no parents to guide them, rely on bright stars and the Milky Way visible in the night sky to aid their migrations.

Milky Way may be visible on July Fourth weekend across the U.S.: How to see our galaxy The center of our home galaxy, the Milky Way is composed of billions of stars that are expected to be bright ...