Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

The CMZ is a region of clouds rich in dust and molecular gas that roils around the galactic nucleus. It measures up to 2,000 ...

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

Astronomers find strange, tornado-like filaments of gas rotating around the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, revealing ...

Deep in the galaxy’s central molecular zone (CMZ), surrounding the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center, clouds ...

A Kansas State University study using Webb Telescope data found most galaxies in a deep field rotate in the same direction, ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array — a group of dozens of radio telescopes in the Chilean desert and the ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

which helped them pinpoint the edge of our galaxy, at about 950,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way. “In many analyses of the Milky Way halo, its outer boundary is a fundamental ...

Black holes may not be as life-destroying as we thought. A surprising study reveals that the powerful radiation from active ...