The Event Horizon Telescope's famous image of Sagittarius A* may depict an artifact, raising questions about the black hole's ...

The universe is filled with galaxies, including our own Milky Way. When pictured, galaxies appear like fairly set areas with ...

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

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to discover REBELS-25, a Milky Way-like galaxy from the ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

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 ...

The Milky Way galaxy also has a supermassive black hole at its center, called Sagittarius A* (A star). The black hole swallows everything, including light, making it impossible to see the ...

What does the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy look like ... New view of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way hints at an exciting hidden feature ...

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 ...

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.