The new image is an up-close view of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors. The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest ...

Our sun and the planets that circle it are part of a galaxy called the Milky Way. Its name comes from the Greek galaxias ...

Astronomers have uncovered compelling evidence of the closest supermassive black hole outside of our own Milky Way galaxy. Nestled within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of our nearest galactic ...

The Milky Way ski area: Just like the galaxy in the sky, the six ski resorts of the Milky Way (Via Lattea as it’s known to Italians) offer skiing and riding out of this stratosphere! The six ski ...

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 ...

Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, LMCN 1968-12a is the first recurrent nova outside our galaxy to have been studied in near-infrared light.

In the ongoing quest to understand dark matter, researchers are now wondering if a strange phenomenon occurring at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy could be from a different form of dark matter. Dark ...

ALMA’s amazingly high resolution has sharpened the view of the tempestuous churn in Milky Way’s central zone. This area, surrounding the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), acts as a kind ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters could play an important role in distributing organic molecules ...

Astronomers have had a rare glimpse into the heart of the Milky Way thanks to an errant star expelled from the galactic centre. At the middle of our galaxy is a supermassive black hole ...

Photo shows New Year's Weather: Dark grey storm clouds over a green forested area, with a rain storm on the horizon.