China's Wide Field Survey Telescope has captured an amazing view of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central Television (CCTV) | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our galaxy.

A recently detected flash of energy appears to have emanated from the wreckage of colliding galaxies, according to an ...

The Milky Way resides in a cosmic neighborhood called the Local Group that includes more than 50 other galaxies. Those galaxies can be as "small" as a dwarf galaxy, with up to only a few billion stars ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way, is slowly moving toward us at incredible speed. Astronomers ...

For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by its gravity. New simulations reveal the answer: our galaxy sits in a ...

Most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local Group of galaxies (which includes the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy) must be ...

If you’ve spent your entire life looking at the night sky from a city or suburb, you’ve basically been watching the universe ...

California stargazers can see the Milky Way without special equipment. Learn when and where to spot our galaxy's bright center.

"Astronomy is one of the only sciences that can be done by normal laypeople," Calumet Astronomical Society President David Ryan said.