Looking towards the central region of the Milky Way, there is an unexpected surplus in the most powerful light that exists: ...

What can the gamma ray light emitted by the Milky Way Galaxy teach scientists about the existence of dark matter? This is ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

Ursa Major III, previously classified as a dwarf spheroidal galaxy due to its high mass, is proposed to be a compact star cluster located 32,600 light-years from the Milky Way. The research team ...

While Zhúlóng is unquestionably older than the Milky Way, it could be mistaken for our galaxy's "little" sibling. The new research estimates that Zhúlóng's star-forming disk measures about 60,000 ...

The Milky Way galaxy is like a gigantic ocean gyre or eddy that spins and wobbles around its center. But our home galaxy also ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party — and it is weird, wild and wonderful. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a Northwestern University ...

With summer soon approaching, the Milky Way will become more visible in May Getty If you’ve ever wanted to see the Milky Way with your own eyes, now’s your chance! There’s something truly astonishing ...

A research team led by Xabier Pérez Couto, from the Research Center in Information and Communication Technologies (CITIC) at ...