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

Two colliding galaxies have been found to be reorganizing their dwarf satellites, potentially solving a major conundrum ...

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

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

Milky Way's chance of colliding with Andromeda? New study puts odds at 50-50 For this new study, the scientists relied on updated galaxy measurements to factor in the gravitational pull on the ...

The Milky Way captured by the MeerKAT radio telescope array, with the James Webb Space Telescope's image inset. . | Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, SARAO, Samuel Crowe (UVA), John Bally (CU), Ruben ...

When the stars and Dragon align. 🌟🐉 The Milky Way appears in the vastness of space behind the docked @SpaceX #Dragon crew spacecraft as the space station soars into an orbital sunrise. pic ...

They orbit the Milky Way at a distance of about 160,000 light-years and are visible from the Southern Hemisphere without a telescope, according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Astronomers at Leiden University have detected rare isotopes of carbon and oxygen in our neighboring stars for the first time ...

Milky Way's chance of colliding with Andromeda? New study puts odds at 50-50 For this new study, the scientists relied on updated galaxy measurements to factor in the gravitational pull on the ...

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding ...

Milky Way's chance of colliding with Andromeda? New study puts odds at 50-50 For this new study, the scientists relied on updated galaxy measurements to factor in the gravitational pull on the ...