Astronomers have created the most detailed low-frequency map of the Milky Way, revealing otherwise hidden stars and ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered five complex organic molecules trapped in the ice around ...

For decades, astronomers have been vying to identify a source for a mysterious gamma-ray excess at the center of the Milky ...

"No low-frequency radio image of the entire Southern Galactic Plane has been published before, making this an exciting ...

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s ...

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio ...

A gamma ray glow at our galaxy’s center has puzzled scientists for almost two decades. New computer simulations back the ...

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

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

The Milky Way is a rich and complex environment. We see it as a luminous line stretching across the night sky, composed of ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

An excess of gamma rays in the center of our galaxy could mean scientists have finally detected dark matter particles—or not ...