Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.

Astronomers have been baffled for decades by a cosmic deficit: the Milky Way’s calculated entourage of satellite galaxies is ...

The Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens of yet-undetected satellite galaxies. Scientists are using advanced simulations to predict the existence of these invisible structures. Satellite ...

The structure, named the Midpoint cloud, is an example of a Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC). It was discovered by the team using ...

Though it appears as a softly glowing cloud against the darker sky, what we see is so much more remarkable. This is the rim of our galaxy’s disk arching across the sky. Its hazy appearance, of course, ...