See that strip of stars splashed across the night sky? That's our home galaxy, the Milky Way. You can see it from Earth because we live on its very outskirts, far away from all the fun stuff happening ...

“Observing the Galaxy is like standing in the middle of a brightly lit city at night. If you look toward the outskirts, the ...

This image by Taiwanese photographer Shang Yao-Yuan shows that you don't need the latest kit to capture the cosmos ...

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

The vantage point at Cerro Pachón, with its dark skies and high-altitude clarity, enhances the richness of the image.

A scientist analyzing Fermi telescope data found a strange glow around the Milky Way that looks like it could be coming from ...

Jesuit priest Fr Richard D’Souza, a galactic archaeologist at the Vatican Observatory, studies galactic cannibalism. His 2018 ...

We live inside the Milky Way, but we don’t know where it actually ends. This is the stunning truth about our galaxy’s hidden boundaries. Journey beyond the spiral arms into the vast, spherical halo of ...

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...