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

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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