With cardboard caps on their heads, dung beetles rolling their balls showed how they find their way using the Milky Way.

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

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

Malorie Thorson, the newly crowned 72nd Princess Kay of the Milky Way, has embraced a unique tradition at the Minnesota State ...

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

The Solar System, home to Earth and countless other fascinating planets and moons, exists within the Milky Way galaxy. But exactly where are we in this vast galaxy? The Milky Way is a massive ...

‘Ice Cubes in a Volcano’: Scientists Baffled by Mysterious Clouds in Center of the Milky Way The finding suggests a pair of gigantic Fermi bubbles in our galaxy formed after the dinosaurs.

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

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 ...

Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the Big Bang.

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, according to new research.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Scientists reportedly spotted a comet the size of Manhattan flying through the Milky Way galaxy, marking the third time an object from outside the galaxy has been spotted in ...