We might be on track to hit a supermassive black hole a lot sooner than anyone expected. Tucked away inside the Large ...

For most of human history, the Milky Way has been a hazy band of light, a backdrop rather than a map. Now, by reading the chemistry of individual stars from within the disk itself, astronomers are ...

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a beautiful barred spiral galaxy, but we will never see what it looks like from the outside. It is too big, and we are too deeply inside it. This limitation results in ...

All of the people and mountains and planets and stars that you see around you only make up 15% of the universe's mass. The rest of it is dark matter.

July 10 (UPI) --Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the Big Bang. Research presented at the Royal Astronomical ...

Time is running out to catch one of the most breathtaking sights in the night sky: the center of the Milky Way. The heart of our galaxy, made up of billions of stars, shines brightest during warmer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Looking for an alternative to fireworks? Stargazers can catch a cosmic light show this Independence Day when the Milky Way appears ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...