Astronomers suggest there's a giant "star grinder" lurking at the center of the Milky Way, churning up star systems.

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

Nadeen Sabha,University Innsbruck is the first astrophysicist in Austria to lead a research project at the new James Webb ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. And despite living so close to the cosmic behemoth, they are likely to remain intact ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

Scientists have made the record-breaking detection of oxygen in an ancient galaxy that existed just 300 million years after ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

Ancient Greek theories on the Milky Way galaxy ranged from mythology to science, with ideas from Democritus, Aristotle and ...

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