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

Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have detected a new giant molecular cloud in the Milky Way galaxy. The ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters ...

They have now hit upon a jackpot as they detected oxygen in a new world. However, this world is not in our Solar System, in ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

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

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

Aterrifying glimpse of a possible fate for our galaxy, the Milky Way, has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

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

Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...