Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...

A maelstrom of star formation close to the center of our galaxy has been revealed in two different wavelengths by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), its beautiful images highlighting the intensity ...

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

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

Supermassive black holes stand out for their fundamental role in the evolution of galaxies and the history of the universe.

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could be the result of dark matter particles colliding, or it might come from ...

Do the building blocks of life exist beyond the Milky Way, and can we identify them? This is what a recent study published in ...

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

Using supercomputer simulations, a team of researchers investigated a mysterious source of gamma light coming from the Milky ...

What can the gamma ray light emitted by the Milky Way Galaxy teach scientists about the existence of dark matter? This is ...

Where are all the Milky Way's missing satellites? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Milky Way's system of small, orbiting ...

The Milky Way contains a modest amount of alien civilizations, a new paper proposes — and there's a reason we aren't seeing ...