"These two supernova remnants are helping us to better understand the dynamics of our home galaxy’s neighborhood," ...

Our galaxy's two closest neighbors are two dwarf galaxies known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), and ... "Because of the Milky Way's own giant halo, the LMC's gas is getting truncated, or ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

NGC 7023, also known as the Iris Nebula, is a reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus. It's a bright nebula that's visible in the northern sky.

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes.

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the ... The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, is located nearly 160,000 ...