A star has been spotted shooting away from the heart of our galaxy at around 500 kilometres per second, giving astronomers ...

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

A new survey of the Milky Way has unveiled billions of celestial objects in our galaxy’s plane. The survey was taken using the Dark Energy Camera, which the US Department of Energy built ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is on a collision course with the Andromeda galaxy. In about four and a half billion years, these two galaxies will merge to form a new galaxy, sometimes called “Milkomeda.” ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a huge number of faint stars. For the next 300 years, astronomers assumed that the ...

According to a new paper accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, star formation in the Milky Way is happening at a much higher rate than current estimates. As such, our galaxy may ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, causing the larger galaxy to “wobble,” imparting ...

The moving metals in Earth's core create the planet's magnetic field. Our planet sits in a small corner of the Milky Way galaxy, 25,000 light-years from the galaxy's center. Our solar system lives ...

These shots of the Milky Way were taken by 25-year-old photographer Stephen Bank over the past month They include some of the county's most iconic locations such as the renowned beauty spot Durdle ...