Learn how many suns exist in the Milky Way and how to understand how many sun-like stars are out there could help us ...

A new study suggests the Milky Way’s gamma-ray glow could be a dark matter signal shaped by ancient galactic mergers.

When we think about orbits, we usually picture the Earth zooming around the sun. But does the sun just sit there? Or is it on its own journey? I asked my friend Guy Worthey. He’s a space scientist at ...

Note: I generally don’t do a thorough debunking of pseudoscientific nonsense on the blog, and instead relegate that to the main site. But I decided to do this on the blog, knowing that more people ...

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 recently questioned whether that is ...

The “most pristine” star ever seen may have just been discovered at the edge of the Milky Way. It could be the direct ...

"Clusters rich in red supergiants are very rare and tend to be very far away, but they play a crucial role in understanding key aspects in the evolution of massive stars." When you purchase through ...

For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

Sooner or later on any clear, dark night, an ethe­real band called the Milky Way arches across the sky. Although recognized since antiquity, philosophers and scientists could only guess at what it ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. This article is more than 5 years old. The center of our ...

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 ...