Could an Egyptian coffin, dated 5,000 years ago, hold the answer to one of the night sky’s greatest mysteries? University of ...

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope spotted surprisingly cold, dense hydrogen clouds embedded inside the Milky Way’s ...

Scientists predict up to 100 invisible galaxies may orbit the Milky Way, hiding just beyond our current detection limits.

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

Our Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than we've detected so far. They're just too faint to be seen.

A surprising discovery at the heart of the Milky Way is forcing scientists to rethink how massive structures called Fermi ...

Back in 2010, scientists spotted something shocking: a pair of gigantic, glowing lobes of gas bursting from the Milky Way’s ...