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

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

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

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

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

New evidence suggests that a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way called Ursa Major III is actually a star cluster.

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

Twin orbs of superhot plasma at the Milky Way's center known as the "Fermi bubbles" contain inexplicable clouds of cold hydrogen, new research reveals. They could help scientists figure out when ...

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite galaxies—up to 100 more than we currently know. These elusive "orphan&quot ...

The Galactic Center Connection The research team used complex mathematical models to predict where these objects might exist. Their calculations point to a specific location: the center of our galaxy, ...