Dozens of 'wandering' black holes could be tumbling through our galaxy right now, new simulations hint. Their existence could ...

Galactic bones, filaments of radio-wave-emitting particles, run through our galaxy, and one of them has a fracture. New ...

A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the ...

A galaxy remarkably similar in shape to our own Milky Way, yet significantly bigger and dating back to the universe's infancy ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is home to some extremely weird things, but a new discovery has astronomers truly baffled.

The Milky Way galaxy is about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 ... “As galaxies go, the Milky Way is pretty ordinary for its type,” Steve Majewski, an astronomer at the University of Virginia ...

“If a spiral galaxy can not only survive but thrive under such extreme conditions, what does this mean for the future of galaxies like our own Milky Way?” wondered Bagchi. This type of ...

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will ... known as a "type Ia supernova" occurs when a white dwarf—the ...

The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...