The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

Technology is only a part of the immersive experience, which runs through mid-May in Santa Monica. Its creator believes human ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and it's not alone. There is also likely a forest of binary ...

Have you ever had an X-ray taken of your bones? Well, so has the Milky Way. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory regularly images ...

A beautiful but skewed spiral galaxy dazzles in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy, called Arp 184 or NGC ...