Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

A new low-frequency radio image offers the most comprehensive view yet of the Milky Way’s southern sky. Astronomers at the International Center of (ICRAR) have produced the most detailed low-frequency ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space telescope shows that might not always have been the case.

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

Using deep imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope, they observed a galaxy bearing a striking resemblance to our 13.6-billion-year-old Milky Way, but one that formed only 1.5 billion years after ...

Some newly found stars in a small galaxy called Sextans A are forming without some of the usual "ingredients," raising ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The dark matter distribution of a Milky Way mass halo in a Lambda-cold dark matter (LCDM) ...

Astronomers have completed the most comprehensive census of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to date, providing the clearest picture yet of the probability that galaxies of different sizes host active ...

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...

The dark matter distribution of a Milky Way mass halo in a Lambda-cold dark matter (LCDM) cosmological simulation. This is the highest resolution simulation of a MW-mass dark matter halo ever ...

New research presented at an astronomy meeting shows that active black holes are more common in dwarf galaxies than earlier studies suggested, based on a large survey of nearby galaxies.