Astronomers have found more evidence that there is a massive ripple traveling through the Milky Way. They have found evidence ...

Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space. The so-called "sleeping giant," named Gaia BH3, has a mass that ...

Scientists generated the most precise three-dimensional image of star formation zones in the Milky Way galaxy using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope.

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ...

ESA's Gaia mission ends its tenure—creating the most comprehensive and precise 3D map of Milky Way Galaxy In March 2025, the Gaia mission stopped collecting data from space. The influence of this ...

Ursa Major III, previously classified as a dwarf spheroidal galaxy due to its high mass, is proposed to be a compact star cluster located 32,600 light-years from the Milky Way. The research team ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

The moon is near new phase this week, and clearer skies and cooler overnight temperatures means that this is also an optimum week to check out the beautiful summer Milky Way.

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his ...

As NASA described it, the stellar jet located on the outskirts of the Milky Way resembles Darth Maul’s double-bladed lightsaber from “Star Wars.” ...