People used to think that the heavens were a vast clockwork, with planets and moons moving in circular orbits like a vast timepiece.

A long-standing scientific belief holds that stars tend to hang out in the same general part of a galaxy where they originally formed. Some astrophysicists have...

Good advice from the 70s progressive band. Look around you. Unless you’re one of the Apollo astronauts, you’ve lived your entire life within a few hundred...

One of the the fastest-moving stars ever discovered in the Milky Way is challenging theories about why it’s moving so fast.

Astronomers have known for years that something seems to be pulling our Milky Way and tens of thousands of other galaxies toward itself at a breakneck 22 million...

Scientists are using the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to go prospecting in a rich molecular cloud in our Milky Way Galaxy. They seek to discover new,...

This stunning image of swirls of dust surrounding the variable star V838 Monocerotis near the edge of our Milky Way Galaxy, about 20,000 light-years from our sun, was...

When Pluto was demoted from planet to dwarf planet, there was a massive outcry of support. However, the latest interstellar demotion is unlikely to gather the same...

Astronomers have found the remains of the youngest supernova, or exploded star, in the Milky Way Galaxy. The supernova occurred in 1868, but was hidden behind a thick...

Is there a genocidal countdown built into the motion of our solar system? Recent work at Cardiff University suggests that our system’s orbit through the Milky...

So you’ve lived here all your life — in fact, everyone has — but what do you really know about the Milky Way galaxy? Sure, you know it’s a spiral, and it’s...

Rocky planets, possibly with conditions suitable for life, may be more common than previously thought in our galaxy, a study has found.