Astronomers are rethinking what looks like the Milky Way’s quieter neighborhood, as new analysis of nearby gas clouds points ...

Incredible picture of the Milky Way wins photography competition - ‘Ancient Light’ by Michael Harris was awarded the top ...

The contest was held to mark the 10th anniversary of the park being named as an International Dark Sky Reserve.

The photo, Ancient Light, captures the glowing band of the Milky Way stretching above an abandoned barn in East Sussex’s Balsdean Valley.

The Chandra team has released a striking new composite image of the Cocoon Nebula, a reflection and emission nebula in the ...

A telescope in Chile has revealed the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomers used RR Lyrae stars to trace the early Milky Way, revealing a rapid formation of its halo and disk, with chemical patterns similar to Andromeda.

ALMA’s most ambitious galactic survey yet exposes a wild, filament-filled stellar nursery at the very heart of the Milky Way. Astronomers have produced a remarkable new view of the center of the Milky ...

Astronomers captured this stunning image of the Milky Way’s center, revealing a web of gas, dust and stars in extraordinary detail ...

The Milky Way’s centre looks nothing like the calm band of starlight you see from a dark hillside. In a new, ultra-wide radio mosaic, the region turns into a tangle of cold, threadlike gas structures.

Astronomers have produced the largest and most detailed map ever made of the vast web of cold cosmic gas stretching across the heart of our galaxy, showing thread-like filaments resembling rivers of ...

If the pulsar is confirmed, it could enable more precise measurements of the space-time around the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole ...