A new study suggests the Milky Way’s gamma-ray glow could be a dark matter signal shaped by ancient galactic mergers.

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Telescope to detect complex carbon molecules frozen around a young star, ST6, beyond our ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered five complex organic molecules trapped in the ice around ...

Concentrated hydrogen in the galaxy’s spiral arms can be locked away in zircon crystals, providing startling clues about the ...

Astronomers have for the first time spotted multiple complex organic molecules—the raw ingredients of life—locked in ice ...

The new radio portrait of the Milky Way is the most sensitive, widest-area map at these low frequencies to date. It will ...

A new radio portrait of the Milky Way blends big-picture and high-detail surveys, exposing star nurseries, supernova debris, ...

Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms of the Milky Way over more than 4 billion years, according to new research.

Sooner or later on any clear, dark night, an ethe­real band called the Milky Way arches across the sky. Although recognized since antiquity, philosophers and scientists could only guess at what it ...

Learn how many suns exist in the Milky Way and how to understand how many sun-like stars are out there could help us ...

What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...