Sometimes in astronomy, a simple question has a difficult answer. One such question is this: what is the mass of our galaxy?

Research shows that galaxies form inside gigantic haloes of dark matter, the elusive substance that doesn't interact with ...

Down here on Earth, if we’re lucky, we can spot the Milky Way glimmering in the night sky like a sparkling stretch of fog across space. It can be a rare sight, especially for city dwellers who ...

Scientists from the University of Southampton believe galaxies crashed together to create gigantic elliptical galaxies.

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

If you thought that the Milky Way was just your average run-of-the-mill galaxy, you’d be wrong. Turns out that it’s quite the freak and we shouldn’t consider it a standard example of how ...

A new view of the Milky Way: Warped and twisted Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is "warped and twisted" and not flat as previously thought, new research shows. Analysis of the brightest stars in the ...

A new study claims to have discovered about 200 ancient stars in the Milky Way’s halo, the most ... [+] distant of which is more than a million light-years from Earth. That’s almost half the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's brand-new image of the Sombrero Galaxy casts this city of stars in a new light — ...

Space is full of amazing and rare facts that can totally blow your mind ... they could fit a million suns inside them! Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is just one of billions in the universe, and ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 light-years and contains between 100 billion and 400 billion stars. The Milky Way ...