Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

Hubble’s high-resolution imagery allowed researchers to hone in on more of the Bullseye galaxy’s rings — and helped confirm ...

Although astronomers have an abundance of evidence that most of the mass in any given galaxy is invisible ... collected into a large clump in the center, with more diffuse clouds of dark matter ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for ... part of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted a cosmic Bullseye galaxy, revealing evidence of a rare kind of galactic collision.

At double the width of our Milky Way galaxy, this jet of radio waves is the biggest ever detected so early in the history of the universe, astronomers reported Thursday. Radio jets like this are ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Scientists have spotted the building blocks of RNA at the center of the Milky Way.

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way ... as shown in the photo above. A - Clusters bright blue stars embedded within the galaxy, background ...