From the Andromeda Galaxy to the Magellanic clouds, check out these 7 vibrant images of galaxies nearest to the Milky Way ...

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky ... way around" the galaxy before coming together to make up our bodies here on Earth.

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

This discrepancy is largely due to a fundamental limitation of our observations, originating from our position in the central plane of the Milky Way's disk. Our location limits the volume of ...

Scientists have supercharged one of Earth's most powerful telescopes with ... It will show how our Milky Way galaxy was built up over billions of years. Prof Gavin Dalton of Oxford University ...

Sagittarius A*, located about 26,000 light-years from Earth ... the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The binary system, named D9, consists of twin stars that are ...