Astronomers have discovered a vast cloud of gas and dust stretching out for a staggering 200 light-years and lurking in a poorly explored region of the Milky Way. The structure, named the Midpoint ...

A dramatic event in our galaxy may be giving birth to new stars. A recent study led by Ph.D. student Dilda Berdikhan from the ...

Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.

The Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years across, 1,000 light-years thick, and populated by 100 billion stars. That sounds ...

This structure contains many galaxies and clusters, including our own Milky Way Galaxy. Credit: SDvision interactive visualization software by DP at CEA/Saclay, France ...

The dual disk structure of our home galaxy may not be as unique as once thought, according to the results of a new study that probed the cross section of a spiral galaxy orbiting the Milky Way ...

A New Understanding of the Milky Way’s Gas Distribution The newly created map shows that the gas in the outer regions of the Milky Way does not follow the smooth, orderly structure previously ...

"We know the Milky Way has some 60 confirmed companion satellite galaxies ... Cold Dark Matter-- the standard model of cosmology that explains the large-scale structure how galaxies form, the ...

Using data from the Gaia telescope - which created a map of 1.8 billion stars in the Milky Way - researchers estimated the total mass of our galaxy to be just 200 billion times that of the sun.

The first all-sky survey performed by the eROSITA X-ray telescope on-board the Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma observatory has revealed a large hourglass-shaped structure in the Milky Way. These 'eROSITA ...

Astronomers deployed the Hubble Space Telescope over the course of a decade to conduct 600 separate observations to produce an extraordinary mosaic of the great spiral galaxy. Astronomer John S.