Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...

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

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

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

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...

The galaxies will then separate, slow down, and move back toward each other before colliding again in 5.1 billion years ... “The Collision Between the Milky Way and Andromeda.” ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

Astronomers have discovered a fast-moving star potentially carrying a planet across space at 1.2 million miles per hour, ...

Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...