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

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

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

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

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

In the vast expanse of the universe, there are cosmic giants so enormous that they stretch our understanding of scale and ...

The Earth, the solar system, and the entire Milky Way are stranded near the centre of a giant, mysterious hole where the cosmos is accelerating faster.

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

The answer: There are approximately 2,000,000,000,000 galaxies in the universe – that’s 2 trillion. Astronomers don’t know ...

Are we living in a cosmic void? New theory suggests our galaxy sits in a giant hole warping the universe's expansion.

Explore the mysteries of the Milky Way, including the powerful gravitational force of black hole Sagittarius A and the galaxy's age and size.