Observations show the disk of our galaxy is not flat but warped and waving. Astronomers are still working out the reasons why ...

Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

The night sky often feels calm, yet the early universe tells a very different story. A newly studied ancient galaxy, seen as ...

Researchers using new simulations suggest that the Milky Way’s past collisions may have reshaped its dark matter core. This ...

Astronomers recently built a precise radio map of the Milky Way’s southern midline, showing 98,000 radio sources.

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

A mysterious gamma-ray glow from the Milky Way's core has scientists divided. While pulsars were the leading theory, new ...

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

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our ...