Comet 31/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object to ever be observed whizzing through the Solar System. While its origins are uncertain, the comet is thought to come from a part of the Milky Way ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a spectacular image of the Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946) shining close to the dark shape of the Seahorse Nebula.

New research suggests that the Milky Way should be surrounded by as many as 100 undetected tiny and faint "orphan" galaxy ...

The only place that's likely to happen is at the very center of our galaxy. And, for a while, there was an excess of ...

Scientists predict up to 100 invisible galaxies may orbit the Milky Way, hiding just beyond our current detection limits.

A cosmic void could be distorting how we see the universe expand. Sound from the Big Bang may hold the clues. According to astronomers, Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be located within a ...

There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to ...

"Once you do, it's just spectacular," said Aileen O'Donoghue, astronomer with St. Lawrence University and the Adirondack Sky ...

The center of our galaxy is visible overnight on summer evenings, just off the tip of the Sagittarius Teapot’s spout in the ...

Folks think I've lost my mind when I suggest the best time of year to visit me for stargazing here in the Southern California desert is during late July and early August. Yes, the days are scorchingly ...

Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological ...