Scientists have searched for wind coming from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole for 50 years. Now, researchers believe ...

Scientists from Argentina’s National University of San Juan say they’ve discovered a “large scale structure” in a largely unseen part of the Milky Way galaxy, according to a new preprint paper ...

On clear nights, the Milky Way appears vast beyond imagination, stretching like a river of stars across the darkness. Yet ...

Unusual stellar remnants suggest the Milky Way might have eaten a galaxy called Loki billions of years ago, according to new ...

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite galaxies—up to 100 more than we currently know. These elusive "orphan" galaxies have ...

Stars and galaxies move around us at a pace that seemsglacial on human time scales. Their dance is exceedingly gradual, taking place over billions of years. But if we could see time the same way the ...

Milky Way galactic center star formation is more than ten times below model predictions, a new ALMA survey presented at AAS ...

The SAGA Survey just published three new research articles that provide us with new insights into the uniqueness of our own Milky Way Galaxy after completing the census of 101 satellite systems ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new cosmic map is giving scientists an unprecedented look at the boundaries for the giant ...

Scientists sifted through a lot of noise to observe a new-to-us galaxy cluster. The cluster is hiding in plain sight behind the massive visual bulk of the Milky Way. To see through the visual noise, ...