Astronomers studying the Milky Way's oldest stars have estimated that the Universe is about 13.6 billion years old.

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and planets are formed.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so ...

A sweeping new ALMA image has peeled back the veil on the Milky Way’s core, exposing a dense network of cold gas filaments ...

Astronomers captured this stunning image of the Milky Way’s center, revealing a web of gas, dust and stars in extraordinary detail ...

Largest ever image obtained by specialist telescope in Chile represents scientific and aesthetic breakthrough ...

A team of astronomers led by researchers at the University of Groningen has identified a colossal sheet of dark matter and ...

CWISE J1249+36, a low-mass runaway star, is traveling at an extraordinary speed that could propel it out of the Milky Way.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with a straight ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his ...

Most of the universe is slipping away from the Milky Way, carried outward as space itself expands. Yet one giant neighbor is bucking the trend, racing straight at us while almost every other major ...