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

Astronomers have discovered a black hole emitting energy in jets longer than the width of 140 Milky Way galaxies.

Since 2012, the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) Survey has studied the regions around 101 galaxies that are similar ...

There are two good resources to use to find the best dates for Milky Way sightings. The first is any moon calendar (Time and Date has one that's relatively easy to read) to determine when a new ...

And, if the timing is right, you might even see a hazy belt stretched across the sky—the starry, dusty core of our very own Milky Way galaxy. Right now is a peak time for United States-based ...

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

However, the Milky Way is also spectacular this time of year. At about 9 p.m., look for three bight stars almost overhead; Altair, Deneb and Vega. Get away from city lights and you will see the ...

"Clusters rich in red supergiants are very rare and tend to be very far away, but they play a crucial role in understanding key aspects in the evolution of massive stars." In the past, map makers ...

Astronomers have observed a massive pair of jets releasing from a supermassive black hole 7.5 billion light-years ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...

Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space — so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor ...

Webb's imagery has enabled scientists to better study star formation in the outer Milky Way. A team of NASA astronomers recently pointed the spacefaring telescope toward the outskirts of our own ...