Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...

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

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

Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year ...

At least 50 billion planets in our own Milky Way galaxy are likely to be free ... like the original star cluster in which our own solar system formed. But early such clusters are tumultuous ...

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 trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... and the closest brown dwarfs to the solar system. Brown dwarfs are intermediate objects ...

Shapley suspected the spiral nebulas to simply be ... Shapley determined that the Milky Way was 300,000 light years across, and that our solar system was 50,000 light-years from the center.

If you look up on a clear night from a darksky location, you might see the Milky Way as a faint band of thousands of stars. But these sparkling lights are just a tiny fraction of our cosmic ...