Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy.

Our solar system exists in one of the Milky Way's smaller spiral arms — the Orion-Cygnus arm — which radiates out from the center of the galaxy. While we can use our vantage point to view ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view ... Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters could play an important role in distributing organic molecules throughout the galaxy. Our solar system's ...

Stargazers accustomed to scanning the Milky Way galaxy may notice something odd overhead this month: barely any milk in that way.

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This "twin" of the Milky Way existed just 1 billion years after the ...

This ultra-massive system ... Milky Way -- both in shape, size, and stellar mass," she adds. Its disk spans over 60,000 light-years, comparable to our own galaxy, and contains more than 100 ...