A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this ...

This is high-end real estate for vast star clouds and stunning nebulae. The Large Sagittarius Star Cloud is the brightest stretch of road along the Milky Way and the innermost galactic structure ...

Leo sees action as both Mars and Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 move through; plus, spot galaxies and noctilucent clouds in the sky this week.

Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is a spiral galaxy with a disk of stars spanning more than 100,000 light-years. Check out ...

Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black hole in a neighboring galaxy ...

The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space toward each other at a speed of about ...

Researchers from Durham University have calculated the odds of the Milky Way colliding with the Andromeda galaxy, swallowing ...

Some fast-moving stars within the Milky Way have been traced back to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC ... That’s modest compared to Sagittarius A*’s 4,300,000 solar masses, but larger than ...

It’s kind of a freak accident that it actually happened,” said David Nesvorny with the Southwest Research Institute.

Venus dominates the dawn sky. She reaches greatest western elongation, 46 degrees ahead of the rising sun, on June 1, and ...