The Milky Way ripples like a vast cosmic wave. Gaia’s precise measurements reveal a colossal motion sweeping through the ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

So how many stars are there? Given all of the above, astronomers estimate that the Milky Way contains around 100 billion ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...

For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor. This merger—expected in about 5 billion years—has become ...

For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...

What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...

James Webb Space Telescope captures stunning images of Sagittarius B2, a massive star-forming region near the Milky Way galaxy’s center.

What made the pulses puzzling to the astronomers was that they came in the form of both radio waves and X-rays. The discovery marks the first time that such objects, called long-period transients, ...