The Milky Way's system of small, orbiting satellite galaxies is quite unusual, a new 12-year study of other galaxies in the ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

I s our home galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer this question ...

Watch the mesmerizing Tarantula Nebula video captured by the Hubble telescope, showcasing the most productive star-forming ...

Students from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research combined a commercial satellite dish, a satellite finder and an Arduino, and produced a workable radio telescope. The ...

and photobombing by a couple bright foreground stars that are actually inside our Milky Way B - NGC 206 the most conspicuous ...

Generally, the nights of and near the new moon – when the moon is not illuminated – are better for most stargazing experiences. Here are the dates of new moons this year.

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Summer is the best time of year for seeing the Milky Way from the ...

Thanks to the latest Gaia satellite catalog from the European ... achieved the most accurate measurement of the mass of the Milky Way. This study opens important questions in cosmology ...