Using the Chile-based ALMA telescope, the researchers examined the dynamics and chemistry of a central region.

Astronomers just uncovered something strange about our galactic neighborhood. The Milky Way may not sit inside a simple halo of invisible matter after all.

WOH G64 has always been an oddball. It sits in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, and it ranks among the most extreme red supergiants known.

Scientists mapped 650 light-years of the Milky Way’s core to examine star formation in one of the galaxy’s most extreme environments.

For ancient Arab travelers, the sky was a faithful guide, and a glowing river of stars stretching across the night, inspired ...

Astronomers have spotted a galaxy so faint, it’s almost invisible — a discovery that could help illuminate one of the most elusive substances in the universe.

To reconstruct the formation history and “growth” of the Milky Way using novel methods in computational astrophysics, Dr Tobias Buck and Dr William Oliver are receiving funding from the German ...

A Kentucky lake town turns magical after dark, with quiet docks, soft water sounds, and Milky Way skies that feel unreal on ...

Astronomers have spotted a galaxy so faint, it’s almost invisible — a discovery that could help illuminate one of the most ...

For the past two decades, scientists have wondered about a bright, distinct striped pattern seen in radio waves emanating ...

A newly discovered jellyfish galaxy, seen as it existed 8.5 billion years ago, is challenging assumptions about conditions in the early universe. Astrophysicists at the University of Waterloo have ide ...