At the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, 13,000 feet above sea level on the Sierra Negra volcano of Mexico, ...

Over the last week, we’ve been entertained by a pre-Halloween visitor from the depths of our solar system. It’s Comet ...

Carbon dioxide’s role in warming early exoplanetary atmospheres is likely necessary to create a habitable zone. But it could ...

Once blocked from view, the most massive young star cluster in the Milky Way has finally been revealed by the James Webb ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger ...

Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it ...

The Milky Way might belong to a much larger cosmic structure. New research connects the galaxy to the Shapley Concentration.

Astronomers hypothesize that a long-ago dwarf galaxy dubbed Loki may have merged with the Milky Way when our galaxy was in ...

It takes the Earth one year to orbit all the way around the sun. But the sun’s path around the Milky Way is much bigger. It ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Toronto has found what ...

A map of gravity wells or "basins of attraction" in the local universe may resemble a Taylor Swift outfit, but they define ...

Scientists from the SAGA Survey have studied 101 Milky Way-mass galaxies, revealing that our galaxy may have fewer satellite ...