"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way boast more than spirals; they also have feathers, where clumps of new stars are born. Astronomers ...

The new images, to be presented at an upcoming meeting of the American Physical Society, date back to when the universe was ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A new study suggests that clues about dark matter may be hidden in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone ... to only affect regular matter through gravity. Although we can detect its presence ...

Gravity is gonna make it go its slow down and come back ... Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would pulse ...