If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

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

Issues delivered straight to your door "I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." ...

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

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

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has more than 150 known globular clusters; these objects are excellent tools for studying, for ...

Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...

The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.

The work has revealed that Andromeda is a lot more chaotic than expected. Similar to what recently retired Gaia did for the ...