Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

The Bullseye galaxy earned its nickname thanks to its wild number of rings. A smaller galaxy shot through its heart 50 ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted a cosmic Bullseye galaxy, revealing evidence of a rare kind of galactic collision.

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

NGC 2002: In the middle of this Hubble Space Telescope image ... a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and a birthplace for billions of stars. The cluster is approximately 160,000 light-years ...

So how well do you know the Milky Way? Let's test your knowledge of our galaxy's size, age, speed and more with the 15 questions below. Remember to log in to put your name on the leaderboard and ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

In a study published today by The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a research team led by Yale University’s Imad Pasha ...