The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way.

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Hydra. The stars and galaxies ...

which is part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the researchers have mapped stellar kinematics across the Milky Way. For the first time, they have revealed the intricate motion of stars in the bar ...

Astronomers have observed a binary star system orbiting near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), published Tuesday in ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is associated with wanton ... Binary stars often appear as a single object in the night sky to the naked eye, but can often ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

Veiled in gas and clouds, the Milky Way’s center does not easily give up secrets. The initial detection of its supermassive black hole (SMBH) decades ago posed as many riddles as it solved ...

Many of the atoms in the Milky Way, including the carbon in your body, have taken a round-trip journey through intergalactic space, new research suggests. (Image credit: VICTOR de SCHWANBERG ...