The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system 's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

If I ask you to picture a radio telescope, you probably imagine a large dish pointing to the sky, or even an array of dish ...

The image shows the supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of our galaxy about 26,000 light-years away.

Pocock, who has worked on the JWST, catalogues the science behind its most stunning images in her new book, Webb's Universe. Here's her pick of the telescope’s best shots ...

The Milky Way might belong to a much larger cosmic structure. New research connects the galaxy to the Shapley Concentration. This discovery could reshape our understanding of the universe.

The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history. It did not grow though simple and calm accretion, but rather through the aggressive mergers of multiple smaller galaxies. Recently, a team of ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger "basin of attraction" than we previously assumed. When you purchase ...

Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it could change our understanding of how galaxies form. The galaxy ...

Astronomers have released a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects. This is the most detailed map ever produced to date. Using the VISTA telescope at the ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Toronto has found what they believe is the oldest stellar disk in the Milky Way galaxy.