The Milky Way contains between 100 and 400 billion stars. One of these is our Sun, which looks huge to us here on the ground, but is not even one of the biggest in the Milky Way.

"One day soon we may be able to see these 'missing' galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about how the universe came to be as we see it today." ...

The ATLASGAL has completed its detailed map of the Milky Way galaxy with the inclusion of its southern region. This sheds new insights into our home galaxy, and allows for better comparisons of ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

It is the closet major galaxy to our Milky Way and is the most distant thing you can see with the naked eye at 2.5 million light years away. Absolute chaos will begin as the two galaxies approach ...

Now, astronomers have performed the first calculations that fully explain this phenomenon, with compelling evidence pointing to the Milky Way's envelopment in an off-kilter halo of dark matter. Share: ...

Our planet is in the Milky Way’s suburbs—think of a quaint town in New Jersey, with the heart of Manhattan as the galactic center. However, instead of Central Park, the main attraction of the ...

When can you see the Milky Way in July 2025? 'Blue hour' and Summer Triangle explained. The center of the Milky Way, which Dyches refers to as "the core," became visible in June and is expected to ...

The Milky Way is often depicted as a flat, spinning disk of dust, gas, and stars. But if you could zoom out and take an edge-on photo, it actually has a distinctive warp — as if you tried to ...