We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

Appropriately named, Helene is a Trojan moon, so called because it orbits at a Lagrange point. Two protostars are hidden in a single pixel near the center of a striking hourglass-shaped nebula in this ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

Skygazers can enjoy meteor showers and other dazzling displays in the night sky all month long, according to astronomers.

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

All good things come to an end—even the Milky Way. Our home galaxy’s demise isn’t estimated to occur for at least another 4 or 5 billion years, when astronomers believe it will start ...