Learn how many stars there are in the Milky Way, and how astronomers count them.

For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...

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

Johns Hopkins researchers may have identified a compelling clue in the ongoing hunt to prove the existence of dark matter. A ...

For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

A maelstrom of star formation close to the center of our galaxy has been revealed in two different wavelengths by the James ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

PoET and ESPRESSO telescopes are new tools that will eliminate stellar noise and detect Earth-like planets around Sun-like ...

You still may be able to spot the Milky Way's galactic center in the night sky across the US, but time is running out.

A team of scientists from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Italy, led by astronomer Eloisa Poggio, looked ...