New ALMA observations reveal a complex network of gas filaments in the Milky Way’s central 650 light-years, enabling detailed studies of star formation in extreme galactic conditions.

A sweeping new ALMA image has peeled back the veil on the Milky Way’s core, exposing a dense network of cold gas filaments ...

A striking new image of our Milky Way's center, captured by the European Southern Observatory's ALMA, spans more than 650 ...

A new photo taken by the world's most powerful telescope shows a 6-quadrillion-kilometre span of our galaxy.

Imagine trying to reconstruct the history of a city by studying only its oldest surviving buildings. You can't watch it being built, you can't interview the architects, all you have are the structures ...

Astronomers used RR Lyrae stars to trace the early Milky Way, revealing a rapid formation of its halo and disk, with chemical patterns similar to Andromeda.

What can the gamma ray light emitted by the Milky Way Galaxy teach scientists about the existence of dark matter? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Letters hopes to address as a ...

NASA's powerful James Webb Space telescope has revealed a colorful spread of stars and cosmic dust in the Milky Way's most active star-forming region. The telescope was studying Sagittarius B2, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have long thought that the Milky Way would collide with the Andromeda galaxy in four to five billion years. This ...

The ACES survey has produced the largest ALMA image to date, mapping the Milky Way's core in unprecedented detail ...

If you’ve ever been to a place with minimal light pollution and looked skywards at nighttime, you’ve probably seen our Milky Way galaxy. It manifests as a thick, hazy band of stars streaking across ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has upended expectations again, revealing a massive spiral galaxy in the universe’s infancy that looks strikingly like a young Milky Way. Instead of a chaotic, ...