The current rate of star formation at the Galactic Center appears to be lower than in the rest of the Galaxy. A new study led ...

Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

New research suggests that dark matter may be the key to uncovering the mysteries of the Milky Way. The scientific team led ...

Researchers using new simulations suggest that the Milky Way’s past collisions may have reshaped its dark matter core. This ...

Observations show the disk of our galaxy is not flat but warped and waving. Astronomers are still working out the reasons why ...

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our ...

Silverman, Leah. "Astronomers Just Created The Most Detailed 3D-Map Of Our Galaxy Yet." AllThatsInteresting.com, November 14, ...

Researchers led by Keiya Hirashima at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS) ...

Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

An invisible monster lurks beyond the stars of the constellation Sagittarius near the border with Scorpius: a supermassive black hole, designated as Sagittarius A* (pronounced “Sagittarius A-star”), ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The motions of stars in the Milky Way have revealed a giant outward ripple, set off by a massive event sometime in our galaxy ...