BATON ROUGE, La. (WVUE) - Many of us rarely get to experience a night with truly dark sky, far away from city and suburban lights. Because of that, getting a glimpse of our own galaxy -- the Milky Way ...

The center of our galaxy has long been a mystery, specifically because there is a massive cloud of dust and gas at the center ...

JWST has detected the earliest galaxies in the universe, but some look “more mature” than expected. Is it time to rethink how ...

Evidence that we live in a spiral galaxy is all around us early in the morning in late spring.

A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the ...

Now gather a few hundred billion stars and star clusters together, and you’ve got an immense structure known as a galaxy. The galaxy in which our star — the sun — resides is the Milky Way, so named ...

Described by Capture the Atlas as an "extraordinary milestone," the image One in a Billion, was captured by NASA astronaut ...

Galactic bones, filaments of radio-wave-emitting particles, run through our galaxy, and one of them has a fracture. New ...

It can seem quite challenging for stargazers to comprehend the structure of the universe, but it’s really not that difficult. Just think of it as being ...

Supermassive black holes are some of the most powerful engines in the universe. These giants sit at the centers of galaxies, ...

Astronomers discovered the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy, located 200,000 light-years away, has stars moving in two opposing ...