Astronomers have completed the most comprehensive census of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to date, providing the clearest ...

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

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

The subatomic particles are incredibly numerous. About 1,000 neutrinos from stars other than the sun pass through a thumbnail ...

Using deep imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope, they observed a galaxy bearing a striking resemblance to our ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...

This understanding changed when Dikerby and his team pointed XRISM toward a large gas cloud near the galactic center.

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers traced how Milky Way–like galaxies formed and changed over time.

Astronomers have signalled the discovery of a planetary body roaming the Milky Way that is not gravitationally bound to the ...

A new study shows how Milky Way chemical tracks emerge from shifting star formation and gas supply, reshaping ideas about the ...

Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...