For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by Sagittarius A*, a black hole so massive that its gravity can stretch, tear, and ...

Astronomers have uncovered more than 400 pairs of star clusters in our Milky Way—cosmic siblings that were born together or ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...

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

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

Queen guitarist Sir Brian May's latest book explores the history, mystery and evolution of galaxies in a way never tried ...

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and ...

Scientists from Japan's RIKEN research centre have created the most detailed simulation of the Milky Way ever made.