For decades, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form. But three new studies raise ...

On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...

For years, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form and evolve. But new research ...

NGC 6355 has been imaged using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The globular cluster of stars lies 50,000 light-years away.

Hubble captures the aftermath of the Large Magellanic Cloud’s dramatic encounter with the Milky Way, revealing the loss of ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times ...

Scientists said Thursday they have taken the first ever close-up image of a star outside of the Milky Way, capturing a blurry ...

For decades, scientists have used the Milky Way as ... galaxies in the universe. "The Milky Way has been an incredible physics laboratory, including for the physics of galaxy formation and the ...

The sun has lots of gravity because it’s ginormous compared to Earth ... It’s one of many, many stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Scientists think there could be as many as 400 billion stars ...