If you thought that the Milky Way was just your average run-of-the-mill galaxy, you’d be wrong. Turns out that it’s quite the ...

Astronomers have long used the Milky Way as a benchmark for studying galaxy formation and evolution, assuming that its ...

Canadian photographer Scott Aspinall and his team took on a challenging journey to photograph the Milky Way over a remote ...

The Milky Way bar is a classic - you've probably had a few in your time. But where did it all start? To answer that, we have ...

A group of international scientists discovered three ultra-massive “Red Monster” galaxies capable of forming their own stars ...

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over the intense heat and persistence of the fiery hot gas surrounding the Milky Way.

In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully.

"For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way." ...

Scientists may have finally hit upon the possible mysterious sources that have pumped heat and kept alive the fiery hot gas ...

Research shows that galaxies form inside gigantic haloes of dark matter, the elusive substance that doesn't interact with ...

Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has ...

Scientists have finally imaged a star outside of the Milky Way for the first time. Here's what it looks like and how they did ...