"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation emanating from the ...

A new mapping of our galaxy has just revealed cosmic landscapes never seen before—a Milky Way with supernatural colors that ...

Created using data from two extensive surveys, this spectacular radio image of the galactic plane of the Milky Way provides ...

Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time.

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

The Milky Way appears as a dusty band of stars, but by observing its radio frequencies a different view can be seen, ...

Researchers have successfully performed the world's first Milky Way simulation that accurately represents more than 100 ...

A binary star system, designated D9, has been discovered orbiting the Milky Way's supermassive black hole (SMBH), providing the first compelling evidence that previously enigmatic G objects are ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed radio-colour map of the Milky Way, revealing tens of thousands of sources and ...

If you've never gotten a good luck at the Milky Way galaxy, you'll have that opportunity on Fourth of July weekend. "The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," ...