It's hard to imagine that someday, the Milky Way galaxy will cease to exist. Looking up at the stars, it feels as though ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

The universe is filled with galaxies, including our own Milky Way. When pictured, galaxies appear like fairly set areas with ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.

What is our galaxy, the Milky Way, made of? Well, that is a really good question. I suppose the obvious answer, and it's right in part, is stars - some smaller than the sun and some bigger than ...

The satellite images are sorted by their luminosity from left to right. Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer this question ...

We’re just coming up on August’s “Milky Way” window, arguably the best 10 days of the year for viewing our galaxy. So clear your diary this weekend and get outside to as dark a site as ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Toronto has found what they believe is the oldest stellar disk in the Milky Way galaxy.

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Toronto has found what they believe is the oldest stellar disk in the Milky Way galaxy.

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...