The Milky Way is an iconic fixture of the night sky for Australians, but if looking at it makes you feel dizzy it could be because distinct parts of the system are spinning in different directions.

(CNN) — Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it could change our understanding of how galaxies form. The galaxy, ...

Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic home gives us exclusive insight into its components, but it also hinders our ...

Astronomers recently discovered a never-before-seen celestial phenomenon hiding in our own cosmic backyard. The mystery object, located just a short 15,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way ...

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A globular cluster near the heart of the Milky Way is gradually dissolving, according to a new study published on arXiv, ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --A team of scientists from Northwestern University made an out-of-this-world discovery in space. The one-dimensional cosmic threads are hundreds of horizontal or radial filaments - ...

Recent discoveries of previously unexplained structures in the center of the Milky Way have stunned astrophysicists. New radio telescope images revealed hundreds of filaments along the galactic plane, ...

A giant detector buried deep within the Antarctic ice at the South Pole has obtained the first evidence of eerie particles called neutrinos coming from the innards of our own home galaxy, the Milky ...