The Milky Way’s farthest spiral arms have long been sketched more from motion than measurement. Now three violent explosions ...

Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton, a team of researchers made ...

Scientists have taken a fresh look at the Milky Way's mysterious gamma-ray glow using machine learning and uncovered evidence ...

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A team of astronomers has discovered that the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy may stretch further out into space than was ...

Rare gamma-ray bursts detected by powerful X-ray telescopes orbiting the Earth helped astronomers measure Milky Way spiral ...

The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescopes have spotted the aftermath of three bright explosions echoing through the outer spiral arms of our galaxy, the Milky ...

This brilliant new image, taken by Europe’s Euclid space telescope, offers a preview of the kind of imaging that will be ...

Vasily Belokurov is one of three winners of the 2026 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics. The award is for “uncovering the fossil evidence of past mergers proving that the Milky Way galaxy” was built through ...

The Milky Way is not just a flat spiral disk; it is surrounded by halos, streams, bubbles, satellites, and invisible matter.

No matter the time or vantage point, from a pre-Neolithic cave to a post-lockdown London high-rise, the predictability of the night sky has always been humanity's symbol of permanence and reassuring ...

The European Space Agency released the largest and most detailed image ever captured of the center of the Milky Way. One state just broke a major tornado record—why it’s bad news for millions What is ...