The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) captured the center of the Milky Way galaxy in infrared. The ...

Discover 9 breathtaking Milky Way images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, revealing the galaxy’s stunning structure ...

As NASA described it, the stellar jet located on the outskirts of the Milky Way resembles Darth Maul’s double-bladed ...

A blowtorch of seething gases erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA's James Webb Space ...

Stellar migration may greatly increase the number of habitable planets in the Milky Way. Future ESA missions will test these predictions with detailed exoplanet observations. What can the Galactic Hab ...

Most stars in the Milky Way move at steady speeds, orbiting the galactic center in regular paths. But astronomers have ...

The protostellar source at the center of this research is Sh 2-283-1a SMM1, located approximately 26,000 light-years from Earth. This region, characterized by low metallicity—only one-third of the ...

In a remarkable advancement for the field of astrophysics, astronomers have detected protostellar jets in the remote outer regions of the Milky Way. This groundbreaking finding, published in The ...

The repeated bursts of gamma rays were detected over the course of a day, according to scientists. That’s highly unusual ...

Scientists have discovered a gamma ray explosion outside our galaxy that's not only exceptionally powerful, but also ...