Made up predominantly of gas when spotted while the Milky Way was only about 3 billion years old, the galaxy, DLA2222-0946, should one day evolve into a common spiral galaxy like the Milky Way.

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

The Milky Way could have more satellite galaxies than previously thought, according to new research.Cosmologists at Durham ...

If you were to spring from Earth so high you could glance down at the entire Milky Way, our home galaxy would look like a spinning pinwheel. In it, some 100 billion stars are sprinkled across some ...

Astronomers are one step closer to solving a longstanding mystery — just what our Milky Way galaxy looks like. It may seem odd that a comprehensive understanding of the Milky Way's structure has ...

The dual disk structure of our home galaxy may not be as unique as once thought, according to the results of a new study that probed the cross section of a spiral galaxy orbiting the Milky Way ...

We live in the Milky Way galaxy, an immense, flat, spiral galaxy surrounded by a massive halo of stars and dark matter. The disk of stars, gas, and dust in which the Sun resides is fully 120,000 ...

Scientists have found a vast “extragalactic structure” hidden behind the Milky Way. ... It means that some 10 per cent of the sky remains largely mysterious, hidden behind our own galaxy.

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

Made up predominantly of gas when spotted while the Milky Way was only about 3 billion years old, the galaxy, DLA2222-0946, should one day evolve into a common spiral galaxy like the Milky Way.