Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of the early universe that has escaped normal evolution.

Like people, galaxies are diverse. They come in different sizes and shapes. Earth is in the Milky Way, a spiral galaxy; its stars cluster in spiral arms that swirl around the galaxy’s center.

First images from new observatory bring night sky to life ‘like never before’ The images reveal millions of twinkling stars and dusty galaxies in bright jewel tone hues ...

Martin Kahanec, the co-founder and scientific director of the Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI), has received ...

It's the so-called "Milky Way season" in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about viewing the galaxy ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...