In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic center.

If you look up on a clear night from a darksky location, you might see the Milky Way as a faint band of thousands of stars.

Conflicting distance measurements have added to the uncertainty. One data source places one object at 6,500 light years away, ...

Where is our solar system in the vast assemblage of celestial objects in this island Universe we call the Milky Way? To answer that question, we can begin with the beautiful configuration of stars we ...

One petition for the comeback of the Milky Way Crispy Rolls gained over 8,000 signatures. The treats combine crispy wafer, ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Paneer to ice-cream maker Milky Mist has picked JM Financial, IIFL Capital Services (formerly known as IIFL Securities) and Axis Capital as bankers for its initial public offering (IPO ...

The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the last 12 years, shut down science operations on Wednesday (Jan. 15). The close of the mission's data-collecting phase was necessitated by ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...

the supermassive massive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. In simultaneous radio observations, the team found a radio counterpart of the flare lagging behind in time. The paper is ...

The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star made of mysterious "fuzzy" matter. When you purchase through links on ...