Today in the history of astronomy, NASA announces evidence of material being consumed by the black hole at the center of our ...

Ursa Major III/Unions 1 (UMa3/U1), the faintest known satellite of our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more ...

Gaia, through parallax measurement and other readings, gives the closest look at the Milky Way Galaxy to date.

The Milky Way, our warped spiral galaxy, spans 120,000 light-years and hosts over 200 billion stars, including our Sun. It's ...

Astronomers have achieved a breakthrough in star formation research with the detection of protostellar jets in the outer ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary celestial system containing a runaway pulsar fleeing the scene of a massive ...

The first image of the whole Earth from space came in 1972, when astronaut Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt took a photo from ...

Researchers from the Israel Institute of Technology and other institutions have revealed the origins of some hypervelocity ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking advancement in the study of star formation by detecting protostar outflows in the outer regions of the Milky Way. This discovery was recently published in The ...

Astronomers using ALMA have made the first spatially resolved detection of protostellar jets and outflows in the Milky Way’s ...

Space Our Milky Way isn’t as unique as we thought — there’s a twin galaxy 320 million light-years away Match made in space ...

Researchers spotted a colossal cloud of gas and dust in the Milky Way, filled with turbulent motion, newborn star seeds, and even a natural microwave laser. This newly found Midpoint cloud appears to ...