Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky Way Galaxy->Local Cluster->Virgo Cluster->Virgo Supercluster->Laniakea. Thanks to new deep sky surveys, astronomers now think all those places are part of an ...

Every star that you see in the sky is part of the same enormous galaxy. Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars ...

That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic, for it was at the 33rd ...

Summer is the best time of year for seeing the Milky Way from the northern hemisphere—and parts of August are the very best. We’re just coming up on August’s “Milky Way” window ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.