Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.

At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...

Summer is the best time to see the Milky Way! Here's how to find dark skies, adjust your eyes, and catch our galaxy's glowing ...

An international team of scientists have provided an unprecedented tally of elemental sulfur spread between the stars using ...

"One day soon we may be able to see these 'missing' galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about how ...

Anyone trotting out the well-worn "it’s been a long day" line on July 22 might end up having to rephrase, as Earth is set for ...

You’ll have to wait until the sky is quite dark to begin our Milky Way Summer Road Trip, which means staying up or getting up at round 1 am. Then, facing the northeast, you’ll see a thumbnail ...

Columnist Justice B. Hill remembers the magic of starry nights from his youth and mourns how light and air pollution have ...

Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological ...

There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to ...

The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.

GOBBLE GOBBLE The young Milky Way, shown in an artist’s impression, swallowed a smaller galaxy about 10 billion years ago.The smaller galaxy’s stars are shown with yellow arrows depicting ...