Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a similar spiral ...

Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, ...

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op ...

Despite being the place we call home, much about the Milky Way galaxy remains a mystery. That's partly due to its size — at 100,000 light years across, it's unfathomably massive, containing ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

We are not alone—at least as a galaxy. About 50 dwarf galaxies surround the Milky Way. But when its intense gravity inevitably draws them to venture too close, they will probably be annihilated.

Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer this question more than a decade ago. Commenced in 2013, the Satellites Around Galactic ...

The Milky Way appears as a soft, starry ribbon across the sky, but it’s so much more than meets the eye. The hazy glow you see is actually our galaxy’s dense, dust-filled disk and that glowing ...

The Milky Way sits in a cosmic neighborhood called the Local Group that includes more than 50 other galaxies. Those galaxies can be as small as a dwarf galaxy with up to only a few billion stars ...