In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

The Milky Way's disk consists of both old and young stars, with plentiful gas and dust. Stars in the disk orbit the galactic ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Summer is the best time of year for seeing the Milky Way from the northern hemisphere—and parts of August are the very best.

The Milky Way seems to harbour a vast ripple spreading ... were seen moving with their surroundings. They compared the vertical and horizontal positions of these two groups of stars, along with ...

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...

Many of the atoms in the Milky Way, including the carbon in your body, have taken a round-trip journey through intergalactic space, new research suggests. (Image credit: VICTOR de SCHWANBERG ...

"Within 2 billion years, Andromeda will have traveled the distance that separates it from the Milky Way and, just at their meeting point, they will cross each other," the expert explained ...

The Rigorer AR2 'Milky Way' colorway. / KICKS CREW The new 'Milky Way' colorway will mark Austin's third release from his signature AR2 line, with the theme being first introduced on the AR1.