Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

A new low-frequency radio image offers the most comprehensive view yet of the Milky Way’s southern sky. Astronomers at the International Center of (ICRAR) have produced the most detailed low-frequency ...

Astronomers now believe the Milky Way's "inevitable" collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally thought.

Astronomers have unveiled the most detailed low-frequency radio image of the Milky Way ever produced, an enormous patchwork ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Milky Way could, relatively soon, collide with a neighboring galaxy. A new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy found that there is a 50-50 chance that the Milky Way and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The dark matter distribution of a Milky Way mass halo in a Lambda-cold dark matter (LCDM) ...

Using JWST's Mid-Infrared Instrument, the scientists honed in on stars, all between one and eight times the mass of the sun, ...

Ursa Major III, previously classified as a dwarf spheroidal galaxy due to its high mass, is proposed to be a compact star cluster located 32,600 light-years from the Milky Way. The research team ...

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

A new low-frequency radio image captures the Milky Way in unprecedented detail across multiple wavelengths, revealing its structure from the Southern Hemisphere. This spectacular new image captures ...

New research from Johns Hopkins University and an international team of scientists suggests that two competing theories for the diffuse glow near the center of the Milky Way—colliding dark matter ...