Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

The Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), is unlike most of the galaxy. Almost 80 percent of its dense gas is held there, ...

At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...

Astronomers discover an 850,000 light-year-long cosmic filament in the early universe, providing insights into large-scale ...

A new study suggests that dark matter could be shaping cosmic chemistry, with a proposed self-annihilating dark matter ...

Researchers at King's College London have discovered positively charged hydrogen clouds in the Milky Way's center, suggesting ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to go from one end of our home galaxy to the other.

BEIJING -- Chinese and foreign astronomers have unveiled the first three-dimensional map of the properties of interstellar ...

Astronomers have developed the first three-dimensional (3D) map detailing the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky ...

Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in ...