Scientists have unlocked the 3D structure of molecular clouds in the Milky Way’s center, using a groundbreaking X-ray technique. These cosmic clouds, vital for star formation, were illuminated by past ...

Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy ... Earth’s and Neptune’s. “As far as we can tell, the dominant outcome of planet formation in the Milky Way is to produce these super-Earths ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way -- the magnificent ... tilted by 77 degrees relative to Earth's view. The galaxy is so large that ...