For over a century, astronomers have marveled at the beauty and complexity of spiral galaxies, which feature arms covered in ...

To solve the Milky Way mystery, de Ruiter devised a method ... The back-and-forth motion was due to another star’s gravity tugging on the red dwarf. The researchers were able to measure the ...

A new study suggests that clues about dark matter may be hidden in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone, where unexplained ...

Young stars enveloped in a transformative cocoon of gas shine brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Gravity is gonna make it go its slow down and ... radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would pulse every two hours, like a cosmic heartbeat. The long radio blasts, which ...