Experience a unique underwater spectacle where the "Milky Way" comes to life at a stunning beach destination in Mexico.

The Bullseye galaxy earned its nickname thanks to its wild number of rings. A smaller galaxy shot through its heart 50 ...

The result is an oscillation that looks uncannily like the rolling motion of an ocean's swell coursing through the masses of stars out from the Milky Way's center, on top of but distinct from the ...

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

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly quiet. It’s not creating any galaxy-wide tantrums that should worry us.

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Summer is the best time of year for seeing the Milky Way from the northern hemisphere—and parts of August are the very best.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of the Milky Way galaxy. The agency shared the visuals on social media, ...