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

Alternative to fireworks? Stargazers could instead catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky.

This view of the center of our galactic metropolis was captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope, offering an infrared view of the frenzied scene at the center of our Milky Way and revealing what ...

"The center of the Milky Way and most of the space between stars is filled with a lot of dust, and this is important for our galaxy's life cycle," David Chuss, research team leader and a physics ...

A James Webb Space Telescope image of a 50 light-years-wide portion of the Milky Way's center. An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the Sagittarius C region.

A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this strange place holds thousands of newborn stars, huge clouds of gas, and ...

The Milky Way galaxy is our cosmic home. A barred spiral galaxy stretching 100,000 light-years across. Here we explore our galactic neighborhood in more detail.

A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this strange place holds thousands of newborn stars, huge clouds of gas, and ...

In 2014, a G object called G2 whipped around the Milky Way’s center at a large fraction of the speed of light a mere 36 light hours from the SMBH.

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...