New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

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

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of the Milky Way galaxy. The agency shared the visuals on social media, ...

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

This discovery now allows astronomers to witness the birth of a super star cluster in our neighboring galaxy. The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, is located nearly 160,000 light ...

which has seen some changes since the Milky Way’s oldest stars formed within the galaxy. It’s also intriguing because this study comes on the heels of scientists discovering the ancient heart ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially due to a past galactic collision. NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy ...

Hubble’s work opened the door to the study of the universe beyond our galaxy ... telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a huge number of faint stars. For the next 300 years ...