The Milky Way is a rich and complex environment. We see it as a luminous line stretching across the night sky, composed of ...

A new study suggests the Milky Way’s gamma-ray glow could be a dark matter signal shaped by ancient galactic mergers.

Astronomers have captured a stunning new image of the Milky Way as it's never been seen before. The picture is the largest ...

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio ...

Greetings! You can see all five visible planets this week, two in the early morning sky and three in the evening sky. Venus and Jupiter are easy finds in the early morning sky before sunrise. Just go ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, racing through our solar system at unprecedented speeds, has ignited a fascinating debate among scientists, researchers and space enthusiasts alike. With its unusual ...

The galaxy our planet inhabits is called the Milky Way for the simple reason that, as seen from our world, its impossible-to-count collection of stars looks like a band of milky white light. In all ...

The Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope reveal that our galaxy also has a giant wave rippling outwards from ...

A new study that models the last 4 million years of the comet's journey through the Milky Way hints that the interstellar visitor came from far, far away — potentially originating from the wild ...

The Milky Way galaxy is like a gigantic ocean gyre or eddy that spins and wobbles around its center. But our home galaxy also has a colossal wave rippling through it, pulling and pushing an ocean of ...

At the heart of our galaxy sits a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). In addition to swallowing all matter in their vicinity, black holes like Sgr A* can also blow powerful “winds” ...