Stars orbit the centers of galaxies. But beyond that, things get a little harder to visualize. Do galaxies — and, ...

Astronomers have long considered it inevitable that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with the neighboring galaxy ...

Astronomers led by Song Wang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have discovered an unusual celestial phenomenon, ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has around 150 ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal. It has grown by consuming other galaxies. Yet, it too, may be destined to collide and merge with an even bigger galaxy: Andromeda. Though galaxy collisions are ...

Astronomers will soon begin a search of 2,800 galaxies for signs of advanced alien civilizations using a radio telescope in ...

That is the Milky Way, our home galaxy, and you can see it best on dark, clear nights in the summer. It contains hundreds of billions of stars, including the sun that we orbit. It also has dust ...

Researchers at the University of Surrey have confirmed their astrophysical models using new data from the Euclid space ...

This is why the stars are usually in the Milky Way halo, but their orbit also takes them into the Milky Way plane, the central area of the galaxy where most of its mass lies. The ultracool ...

Most stars in the vicinity of our sun orbit around the disk of the Milky Way in a circle. But halo stars often have trajectories that are ovular, or tilted away from the galactic plane.

Tiny black hole "bullets" left over from the Big Bang could be passing through Mars at speeds in excess of 7,000 times the ...

Milky Way—The faint band of light stretching across ... Plutino—A subclass of Kuiper Belt objects which, like Pluto, orbit the sun twice during every three orbits of Neptune.