A telescope in Chile has revealed the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomers captured this stunning image of the Milky Way’s center, revealing a web of gas, dust and stars in extraordinary detail ...

In the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, there is beauty in chaos. There dense clouds of dust and spindly filaments of cold molecular gas, the basic matter from which stars form, encircle the galaxy’s ...

Largest ever image obtained by specialist telescope in Chile represents scientific and aesthetic breakthrough ...

An invisible monster lurks beyond the stars of the constellation Sagittarius near the border with Scorpius: a supermassive black hole, designated as Sagittarius A* (pronounced “Sagittarius A-star”), ...

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, ...

A striking new image of our Milky Way's center, captured by the European Southern Observatory's ALMA, spans more than 650 ...

Sagittarius A* may be a dense dark matter core instead of a black hole, offering a new explanation for the Milky Way’s central gravity.

A team of astronomers led by Dr. Anna Ordog at the University of Calgary has identified a magnetic-field reversal slicing ...

The stunning new image, produced using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimeter Array (ALMA), represents the largest dataset ever obtained by the observatory.

August has been a month jam-packed with cosmic phenomena visible from Earth – from nebulas to meteor showers to planetary conjunctions. But the month isn't over yet. And now, add to the mix one of the ...

Most of the universe is slipping away from the Milky Way, carried outward as space itself expands. Yet one giant neighbor is bucking the trend, racing straight at us while almost every other major ...