There’s more than one way for a star to die. Some go with a whimper, and some go with a very, very big bang ...

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile.

This story appears in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. It's hard to be modest when you live in the Milky Way. Our galaxy is far larger, brighter, and more massive than most ...

A new view of the Milky Way: Warped and twisted Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is "warped and twisted" and not flat as previously thought, new research shows. Analysis of the brightest stars in the ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Summer is the best time of year for seeing the Milky Way from the northern hemisphere—and parts of August are the very best.

A new study reveals that the intergalactic supercluster holding the Milky Way may be part of an even bigger "basin of ...

The Milky Way is the host galaxy of several satellite galaxies, of which the two largest are the Large and Small Magellanic ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Toronto has found what they believe is the oldest stellar disk in the Milky Way galaxy.

The Milky Way galaxy, in which we live, contains more than 100 billion sun-like stars. There are countless such large galaxies in the universe, most of which are thought to have supermassive black ...

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 ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger "basin of attraction" than we previously assumed. When you purchase ...