The strange behavior of hypervelocity stars suggests a nearby dwarf galaxy must contain a supermassive black hole. If so, a ...

What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the Andromeda Galaxy? Bryan ...

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

A research team may have discovered a star with an exoplanet that is so fast that both will leave the Milky Way.

Astronomers have identified what they believe to be the largest structure in the universe to date. Named "Quipu" after the ancient Incan method of record-keeping, this colossal superstructure ...

The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour (1.93 million kilometers per hour), according to a ...

The Milky Way can be seen as something of a bully, having devoured many smaller galaxies to achieve its vast mass, and ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

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

So how well do you know the Milky Way? Let's test your knowledge of our galaxy's size, age, speed and more with the 15 ...

Encounters on the Milky Way” was screened at the cineplex hall of Bangladesh National Museum on February 7.   By swiss ...