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

A surprising discovery at the heart of the Milky Way is forcing scientists to rethink how massive structures called Fermi ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy ...

The constellation Lyra is faint, but it contains Vega, one of the brightest stars in our night sky. As soon as it gets dark ...

In summer, we face toward the Milky Way's hub in the Teapot constellation, home to the galaxy's supermassive black hole.

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

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

New research suggests sub-stellar objects called dark dwarfs could glow forever on dark matter energy. Could they reveal secrets about the universe’s hidden mass?

New research presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) in Durham suggests a revolutionary possibility: Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be nestled ...

After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...

In the first study of its kind, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS) in Japan, along ...

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...