“Astronomers will be poring over this detailed portrait of more than three billion stars in the Milky Way for decades to come. Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane ...

When astronomers first unveiled the image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, it ...

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

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile.

The image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope.

The portrait shows the giant nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbour NGC 2020, part of a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, 163,000 light-years away. This Hubble Space Telescope image of 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 ...

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.