A vast structure seen more than 11 billion years ago reveals how clusters assembled from smaller clumps along the early ...

About two and a half million light years from Earth, the Andromeda Galaxy is not just a smudge of light in the night sky but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Time is running out to see the iconic band of stars that comprise the center of the Milky Way. Our galaxy is positively teeming ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. When will the Milky Way collide with the Andromeda Galaxy?

The star passes very close to the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole and could reveal the black hole’s spin by tracking how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you've never gotten a good luck at the Milky Way galaxy, you'll have that opportunity on Fourth of July weekend. "The best time ...

Astronomers have discovered a second interstellar cloud near the center of the Milky Way that is extraordinarily rich in ...

A star called S301 passes Sagittarius A* at 8% of light speed, near enough that the black hole's spin should bend its orbit.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two ...

We are not alone—at least as a galaxy. About 50 dwarf galaxies surround the Milky Way. But when its intense gravity inevitably draws them to venture too close, they will probably be annihilated. It’s ...

The center of the Milky Way galaxy will be visible in the night sky throughout July, including the Fourth of July weekend. Known as "Milky Way season," the period from March to September is the best ...

Our galaxy's largest nearby companion is the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a dwarf galaxy visible to the naked eye in the Southern Hemisphere. In recent years, new theoretical research and better ...