The Milky Way is home to hundreds of billions of stars arranged in a glorious spiral pattern. But beyond the obvious spiral, ...

The gas orbiting Sagittarius A (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, is rich in metals ...

You've probably heard Star Trek characters throw around terms like "Gamma Quadrant" or "Beta Quadrant." Here's what to know ...

Radio telescopes beneath the Milky Way. Astronomers have discovered a mysterious radio source in our galaxy that has been ...

Credit: The EAGLE project/Durham University Galaxy simulations suggest the Milky Way offers some of the universe’s best ...

A team of astronomers may have detected the gamma-ray signature produced when antimatter particles, or positrons, collide ...

See the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the Milky Way galaxy in this time-lapse view from the International Space Station.

Near the centre of the Milky Way, a swarm of stars hurtles around a supermassive black hole at extraordinary speeds. Studying them could be the key to understanding our galaxy ...

You can be moving at extraordinary speed and still feel completely stationary. The reason comes down to the difference between velocity and the changes in motion your body can actually detect.

Arp 220 is one of the brightest infrared galaxies in the nearby universe, with intense star formation fueled by a collision ...

The Milky Way galaxy is ablaze with dust in this all-sky map from Planck, a European Space Agency mission. The towers of fiery colors are actually dust in the galaxy and beyond th ...

The Milky Way’s central black hole could lose mass by powering escaping particles, and new calculations suggest how ...