New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the ...

Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope spotted surprisingly cold, dense hydrogen clouds embedded inside the Milky Way’s ...

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

For years, scientists have predicted that in about 3.75 billion years, our Milky Way galaxy would collide with its massive neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy. This cataclysmic event was thought to be a ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant, 500-light-year-wide cavity between two star-forming regions in the constellations ...

It's the so-called "Milky Way season" in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about viewing the galaxy ...

New simulations suggest that dozens of ultra-faint “ghost” galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, hidden from current ...

The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.