"We have discovered a galaxy that has been 'perfectly preserved' for billions of years, a true archaeological find that tells ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

The Yarny Way, located at 8201 Quaker Ave #149 in the Kingsgate Center South, plays off of the Milky Way galaxy. While people will need to ... Another draw for shoppers will be a book section of both ...

Until now, thin and thick disks have only been identified in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies. It has been impossible with previous telescopes to distinguish the thin edge of a distant galaxy when ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope continues to reshape our understanding of the universe by providing unprecedented views ...

Compact ruddy galaxies seen by the James Webb telescope confound astronomers. Having very little spin at birth may explain the galaxies’ small sizes.

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

Learn about the new research that changes the estimates of the Milky Way’s demise.

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black ...

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

At the heart of our galaxy lies a cosmic puzzle: although the Galactic Center is packed with star-making material, massive stars form there surprisingly slowly. Using NASA's retired SOFIA observatory, ...

There’s now a 50-50 chance this galaxy will crash into ours. Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda.