milky way galaxy

The cosmic "seeds" may help explain how our galaxy's monster black hole formed.

Astronomers found four pairs of stars that orbit each other in less than four hours.

A dwarf galaxy or clump of dark matter may have plowed through the Milky Way.

A bridge of hydrogen gas has been detected between two neighboring galaxies.

An artist's new technique allows him to create fluorescent images from bacteria.

A new study challenges the existence of dark matter in the universe.

The new photo captures perhaps 1 percent of our galaxy's stars.

These free-flying alien worlds wander through interstellar space rather than orbit host stars.

The findings will help scientists construct a more detailed blueprint of the cosmos.

The Milky Way, it turns out, has exactly the right name.