Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short ‘Milky Way season’ lasts ...

Our solar system has been orbiting the Milky Way's black hole heart for 4.6 billion years. But it is hard to pin down exactly how many trips around the galaxy our sun has made during that time.

The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

We live in the Milky Way galaxy, an immense, flat, spiral galaxy surrounded by a massive halo of stars and dark matter. The disk of stars, gas, and dust in which the Sun resides is fully 120,000 ...

The Sun makes one orbit around the Milky Way roughly once every 225 million years and is thought to have made this journey some 20 times since its earliest days as a protostar. ...

The Milky Way is estimated to be 13.2 billion years old, and is one of many billions of galaxies in the known universe. Other galaxies may be older and bigger, but as Earth’s cosmic address, the ...

The Milky Way hosts around 50 confirmed or suspected black holes. But there could be thousands or millions more, based on how many stars have likely died in the galaxy’s 13.6-billion-year history.

The Milky Way now only has a two per cent chance of colliding with its nearest galaxy neighbour, according to new research from scientists. New calculations have dramatically reduced the ...

OUR home galaxy – the Milky Way – has been “accurately weighed” for the first time, and it’s unsurprisingly heavy. A groundbreaking study has revealed that it has roughly 1.5trill… ...

Four billion years from now, our galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with our large spiraled neighbor, Andromeda. The galaxies as we know them will not survive. In fact, our solar system is going ...

The Milky Way galaxy has a graveyard of dead stars that stretches three times the height of the galaxy, according to new research. Astronomers found the ancient stellar remnants when they mapped ...

It is 4 million times more massive than our sun. For the first time, astronomers have captured an image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, ...