The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, each following its own evolutionary path through birth, life, and ...

In a breakthrough that could rewrite astronomy textbooks, Indian researchers have discovered a massive, perfectly structured ...

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An illustration that shows the Milky Way's spiral arms. If you were to spring from Earth so high you could glance down at the entire Milky Way, our home galaxy would look like a spinning pinwheel. In ...

A vast, previously hidden structure has emerged from one of the most obscure regions of the sky, revealing that the Milky Way ...

Our solar system’s Milky Way neighborhood just went upscale. We reside between two major spiral arms of our home galaxy, in a structure called the Local Arm. New research using the ultra-sharp radio ...

Andromeda is the closest major galaxy to our Milky Way – and it's getting closer. In fact, astronomers believe that the two galaxies are destined to crash into each other. But a new study suggests ...

Head-on (left) and side-view (right) snapshots of a galactic disk of gas. These snapshots of gas distribution after a supernova explosion were generated by the deep learning surrogate model.

The first ever image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way may not be as accurate as it initially seemed, a new study claims. Located 26,000 light-years from Earth, Sagittarius ...

When you look up at the night sky, do you wonder about what's out there? Most of the stars we can see with the naked eye reside within our own galaxy. And now we know a lot more about them. The ...

NASA has released an interactive mosaic of infrared images of the Milky Way. It is the "clearest infrared panorama of our galactic home ever made," according to the voiceover in the video below. The ...

A 2022 image of our galaxy's central black hole taken with the Event Horizon Telescope could have some important inaccuracies, a new study claims. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...