Reported to be around 300 light-years from the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*. Credit: Space.com ...

The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history. It did not grow though simple and calm accretion, but rather through the aggressive mergers of multiple smaller galaxies. Recently, a team of ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger "basin of attraction" than we previously assumed. When you purchase ...

Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it could change our understanding of how galaxies form. The galaxy ...

The Milky Way galaxy, in which we live, contains more than 100 billion sun-like stars. There are countless such large galaxies in the universe, most of which are thought to have supermassive black ...

At the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, 13,000 feet above sea level on the Sierra Negra volcano of Mexico, researchers are getting a look into a violent mystery in the Milky Way ...

Astronomers have released a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects. This is the most detailed map ever produced to date. Using the VISTA telescope at the ...

Visible from Earth's Southern Hemisphere just below the tail of the Scorpion — and close to the core of the Milky Way — it's the largest known star cluster in our galaxy. It's the ultimate ...

In May, an array of asteroid-watching telescopes on Earth spotted an outburst nestled in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), one of the Milky Way's closest neighbors which is home to four of only ...

In a later comment, he said: "The Milky Way is visible nearly every night. Lots of amazing camping in the area." Screengrabs from a viral TikTok video showing a "surreal" view from the balcony of ...