For decades, astronomers have puzzled over the intense heat and persistence of the fiery hot gas surrounding the Milky Way.

Scott Aspinall and a small crew travelled to northern Saskatchewan to capture the Milky Way's core from the east side of ...

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

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

"For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way." ...

Astronomers have captured the first detailed images of a star beyond our Milky Way galaxy on the verge of a supernova. The ...

Scientists announced Thursday that they had taken the first zoomed-in image of a dying star outside of the Milky Way galaxy.

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

In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully.

Scientists have finally imaged a star outside of the Milky Way for the first time. Here's what it looks like and how they did ...

The Milky Way is made of ordinary atomic matter, like hydrogen and iron. But ordinary matter only accounts for about 15% of matter in the universe. The remaining 85% is mysterious, invisible dark ...

The star, situated in a galaxy orbiting our own tens of thousands of light-years away, may be on the verge of a spectacular ...