In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

Astrophysicists have recently discovered something that has left them completely baffled. Something is causing massive bullet-like holes in the Milky Way's GD-1 stellar stream. This utterly strange ...

Hundreds of 'ghost stars' haunt the Milky Way's center. Scientists may finally know why. Yet these strange blue balls are isolated from these star-forming regions. Sitting at respective distances ...

How can you tell the shape of something if you're inside it? In the late 1700s, astronomer Sir William Herschel addressed ...

It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear autumn night as a faint cigar-shaped object ... and evolution of our own Milky Way. That's because we are embedded inside the Milky Way.

The “Great Attractor” is a fascinating cosmic phenomenon that has long captivated astronomers. The Milky Way and millions of other galaxies in our local universe are being drawn towards it at ...

One of the strangest galaxies in the neighborhood of the Milky Way has just presented astronomers ... arranged around the galactic plane, a strange shape with prominent dust lanes, and a structure ...