There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to ...

Folks think I've lost my mind when I suggest the best time of year to visit me for stargazing here in the Southern California desert is during late July and early August. Yes, the days are scorchingly ...

Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological ...

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 ...

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

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

The object seems to be travelling on a steep path - suggesting it came from the Milky Way's "thick disk", an area of ancient ...

Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic ...

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

By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...

Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic ...