A telescope in Chile has revealed the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

Gas streams gush into the Milky Way 's center and pile up into thick clouds, but for some reason, those ingredients don't materialize into as many stars as astronomers would expect.

A new image from the ALMA telescope shows the splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy in ...

Scientists mapped 650 light-years of the Milky Way’s core to examine star formation in one of the galaxy’s most extreme environments.

Astronomers captured this stunning image of the Milky Way’s center, revealing a web of gas, dust and stars in extraordinary detail ...

"It's a place of extremes, invisible to our eyes, but now revealed in extraordinary detail," Ashley Barnes, an astronomer at ...

During the survey, researchers identified a promising 8.19-millisecond pulsar (MSP) candidate located close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

Deep inside the Milky Way, an invisible force is quietly holding everything together — its magnetic field. Now, researchers have created one of the most detailed maps ever of this hidden structure, ...

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 may finally understand why planets orbiting two suns, the real-world equivalents of the "Star Wars" planet ...

A team of astronomers has captured the heart of our Milky Way galaxy like ...