The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic ...

A recent discovery of a magnetic halo surrounding the Milky Way galaxy could significantly alter our understanding of ...

A new study led by the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), and with contributions from Radboud University's Marijke ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken things to the extreme, studying the outer edge of our own galaxy, the Milky Way and ...

To the unaided eye, its translucent clouds are simply beautiful splashes in the night, their grandeur inspiring hundreds of creation myths. But a telescope reveals subtle structures within and outside ...

New research, utilizing data from the Gaia space telescope, suggests that the Milky Way's last significant collision occurred ...

Thirteen billion years ago, the gas and dust particles that eventually became our Milky Way were whizzing around in every ...

Astronomers will soon begin a search of 2,800 galaxies for signs of advanced alien civilizations using a radio telescope in ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Arp 107, home to two merging galaxies, with two bright cores and a ...

The new jet, announced in the journal Nature, has been dubbed “Porphyrion” (a giant in Greek mythology) by its discoverers at ...

The largest known black hole jets, 23 million light years across, have been discovered in the distant universe. This pair of ...