There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological ...

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 ...

New research suggests that the Milky Way should be surrounded by as many as 100 undetected tiny and faint "orphan" galaxy ...

Astronomers have detected cold hydrogen clouds within the Fermi bubbles near the Milky Way's core, suggesting a recent black hole eruption.

Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia have spotted massive clouds of cold hydrogen gas hiding within the Fermi bubbles.

The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.

The Milky Way is not just a band of stars stretching across the night sky; it's a massive, dynamic galaxy spanning over 200,000 light-years and containing hundreds of billions of stars, planets, and ...

Our Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than we've detected so far. They're just too faint to be seen.

Recent discoveries of life-related molecules on distant planets fuel optimism in the search for extraterrestrial life. Upcoming giant telescopes will offer sharper views, potentially confirming if we ...