A new analysis of the EHT reveals that Sagittarius A*, the central black hole of the Milky Way, is spinning rapidly and ...

Sixty percent of the oldest known galaxies seem to be rotating clockwise an asymmetry so extreme that one scientist described “any person looking at the image can see it.” The result, based on 263 ...

If the Milky Way's rotational velocity has more of an effect than astronomers have assumed, this may account for why galaxies spinning in the opposite way to the Milky Way are overrepresented as ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. "Milky Way season," when the galaxy's bright center becomes easier to see from Earth, typically runs ...

Chinese scientists have, for the first time worldwide, made an important astronomical discovery in stellar observation, which ...

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.

The Andromeda galaxy lies just beyond (...OK, about 2.5 million light-years beyond) our galaxy, the Milky Way. For the past hundred years or so, scientists thought these galaxies existed in a long ...

The Milky Way is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky throughout the United States, including Ohio.

The center of the Milky Way, which Dyches refers to as "the core," became visible in June and is expected to shine every ...

The best chance for seeing the Milky Way this month will come around Memorial Day weekend in Illinois, according to experts -- and there are a few locations you might want to try viewing from.