Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on Aug. 23.

In the past decade, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behavior of ...

Ursa Major III/Unions 1 (UMa3/U1), the faintest known satellite of our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more ...

The impending merger of the two galaxies hints at what might be in store for the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy if and ...

Astronomers identified what they believed was a lone brown dwarf orbiting a bright single star. Then they looked more closely.

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C (Sgr C). Reported to be around 300 light-years from the Milky Way’s central ...

As the temperature dropped, the vast night sky became a stage for distant planets and the steady glow of thousands of stars.

Our Milky Way is one of more than 100 galaxies bound together by gravity.

The Milky Way galaxy glows alongside the zodiacal light over the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile.

According to the US space agency NASA, astronomers identified this merger as the next major event to disrupt the Milky Way. When the collision happens, our cosmic neighbourhood and night sky will ...