Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) What time of night is the Milky Way visible? This is the real beauty of going looking for the Milky Way during August because it’s ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Related: New view of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way hints at an exciting hidden ... For now, ...

Now here is the real trick. In order for the Milky Way to be sharp in the picture ... And I needed an f/2.8 lens that would produce sharp images wide open. Fortunately I had the Nikkor 14-24mm ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for ... future black hole images could be 50% sharper ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... What was seen in the unique images stunned the researchers. While the stars and light ...

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 ...