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

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered five complex organic molecules trapped in the ice around ...

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

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

Astronomers from ICRAR, primarily based at Curtin University, have released the most detailed low-frequency radio image of ...

a faint glow in the Milky Way has caught the attention of astronomers. This glow, potentially tied to dark matter ...

Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, such as explosive supernovae or ridiculously ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Telescope to detect complex carbon molecules frozen around a young star, ST6, beyond our ...

Learn how many suns exist in the Milky Way and how to understand how many sun-like stars are out there could help us ...

Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...