Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

Using deep imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope, they observed a galaxy bearing a striking resemblance to our ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

To date, around 300 supernova remnants have been identified in the Milky Way. However, scientists estimate that the galaxy ...

A sonification of the Milky Way galaxy's core has been turned into sheet music. Find out how it was done. Credit: NASA/CXC/A.

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

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers traced how Milky Way–like galaxies formed and changed over time.

Among life’s most profound experiences is being able to witness the Milky Way stretching across the dark canvas of the sky. In fact, the stars, nebula.

The “Seven Sisters” of the Pleiades are part of a much larger complex that can help reveal our galaxy’s deep history ...

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.