Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation emanating from the ...

A team of scientists thinks they might have finally seen dark matter after all these years of speculation about whether it is real or not. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the Leibniz ...

The Milky Way appears as a dusty band of stars, but by observing its radio frequencies a different view can be seen, ...

Created using data from two extensive surveys, this spectacular radio image of the galactic plane of the Milky Way provides ...

A binary star system, designated D9, has been discovered orbiting the Milky Way's supermassive black hole (SMBH), providing the first compelling evidence that previously enigmatic G objects are ...

Near the centre of the galaxy, chaos rules. The stars that orbit close to the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, called S-stars, are so chaotic that our best simulations of their motions ...

The new image of the Milky Way's black hole, seen in polarized light. It shows the organized magnetic fields that surround the black hole itself, from which no light can escape. EHT Collaboration ...

Their AI learned how gas behaves after supernovae, removing one of the biggest computational bottlenecks in galactic ...

If you've never gotten a good luck at the Milky Way galaxy, you'll have that opportunity on Fourth of July weekend. "The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," ...

The Siena Galaxy Atlas is a treasure trove of information for scientists studying the structure of the universe — and, it's free for the public to access. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers has shown how to use the chemical composition of stars in clusters to shed light on the formation of our Milky Way. This ...