Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

What's the size of the Milky Way galaxy? Learn how, depending on your definition, the size can change.

What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...

Using deep imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope, they observed a galaxy bearing a striking resemblance to our ...

Time is running out to see the iconic band of stars that comprise the center of the Milky Way. Our galaxy is positively teeming with billions of billions of stars that routinely become bright and ...

August has been a month jam-packed with cosmic phenomena visible from Earth – from nebulas to meteor showers to planetary conjunctions. But the month isn't over yet. And now, add to the mix one of the ...

An invisible monster lurks beyond the stars of the constellation Sagittarius near the border with Scorpius: a supermassive black hole, designated as Sagittarius A* (pronounced “Sagittarius A-star”), ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers traced how Milky Way–like galaxies formed and changed over time.

A sonification of the Milky Way galaxy's core has been turned into sheet music. Find out how it was done. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Jubett ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

It’s been textbook knowledge for over a century that our Milky Way galaxy is doomed to collide with another large spiral galaxy, Andromeda, in the next 5 billion years and merge into one even bigger ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...