Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on Aug. 23.

Take a journey through the Milky Way galaxy, exploring the wonders of our solar system and the distant stars that illuminate the night sky. The Milky Way is home to over 100 billion stars, each ...

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there are.

The Milky Way, our warped spiral galaxy, spans 120,000 light-years and hosts over 200 billion stars, including our Sun. It's embedded in a dark matter ...

Our galaxy is a member of the Local Group — a small collection of galaxies, of which the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are the two largest. About 50 smaller galaxies surround them.

An explanation of why some argue it's better to photograph the Milky Way in summer and how to do it, including the best camera settings ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has snapped images of a recently discovered interstellar visitor hurtling through our solar ...

Our solar system has been orbiting the Milky Way's black hole heart for 4.6 billion years. But it is hard to pin down exactly how many trips around the galaxy our sun has made during that time.

Our solar system lives in a major spiral arm of the Milky Way, a new study suggests. This view looking toward the center of the galaxy was taken at the ESO 3.6-meter telescope in the Chilean ...

New research has found evidence that Earth's early continents resulted from being hit by comets as our Solar System passed into and out of the spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy, turning ...

The find, announced Wednesday, can help explain how solar systems across the Milky Way galaxy came to be. This one is 100 light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices.

One Sagittarius A* sits at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. In fact, according to NASA most galaxies of a similar size have monster black holes at their center.