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

Deep inside the Milky Way, an invisible force is quietly holding everything together — its magnetic field. Now, researchers have created one of the most detailed maps ever of this hidden structure, ...

Scientists using the ALMA telescope have created the most-detailed-ever map of the Milky Way's chaotic center. The observations could open a window to the ancient universe as it appeared shortly after ...

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.

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Astronomers have spotted what may be one of the universe’s earliest barred spiral galaxies — a striking cosmic structure forming just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. The galaxy, COSMOS-74706, ...

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

New research suggests the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is actually a tremendously massive yet compact clump of dark matter. Scientists say this clump would exert the same ...

On a clear night, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy look like close neighbors. In space, they really are.

The Milky Way is not the serene, flat disc that textbook illustrations suggest. Astronomers have confirmed that the outer edges of our galaxy’s disc are warped and that this deformation rotates slowly ...

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.