It's a reminder of why preserving pristine night skies remains essential for both astronomy and human wonder.

The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic home gives us exclusive insight into its components, but it also hinders our ...

The location of the area of focus for this research in the Milky Way galaxy is shown above, along with a previously unknown maser. Credit: Image credits as noted, collage created by NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/P ...

The motions of stars in the Milky Way have revealed a giant outward ripple, set off by a massive event sometime in our galaxy ...

Astronomers have detected a previously unknown giant molecular cloud (GMC) at the midpoint of the Galactic Bar Dust Lanes using spectral line observations taken with the Green Bank Telescope (GBT).

The Milky Way appears to have a vast ripple spreading out across at least a quarter of its disc. If confirmed, the structure might be a relic from a brush with another galaxy, but not all astronomers ...

A newly-discovered spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang – far earlier, considering its size, than astronomers thought possible. Themiya Nanayakkara, at ...

A supermassive black hole in the early Universe has been spotted blasting out powerful jets of plasma that are at least twice as long as the Milky Way is wide. Its host galaxy is a quasar called ...

Milky Ways were originally presented as malted milk in candy bar form. The confection's galactic name, along with its ...