Milky Way season, when the galaxy's bright center is visible, is underway. The best viewing time in the Northern Hemisphere is from March to September. The Milky Way can be seen without special ...

At more than 60 kilometers per second relative to the Sun, 3I/ATLAS did not arrive quietly. The object is only the third confirmed visitor from beyond the solar system, and its passage has turned into ...

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.

Hubble finds many binary stars in the young Pismis 24 cluster Stellar pairs act as engines shaping star cluster evolution ...

Scientists discovered the Milky Way lies within a vast flat dark-matter sheet spanning about 32 million light-years.

Astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope have identified a nearly invisible galaxy in the Perseus Cluster that appears to consist almost entirely of dark matter. Designated Candidate Dark ...

Instead of focusing on how fast the universe is expanding, they looked at the ages of some of the oldest stars in our galaxy.

Hubble discovers CDG‑2, a galaxy 99.9% dark matter, revealing a cosmic phantom and reshaping our understanding of galaxy ...

For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by its gravity. New simulations reveal the answer: our galaxy sits in a ...

Most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local Group of galaxies (which includes the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy) must be ...

Astronomers studying the Milky Way's oldest stars have estimated that the Universe is about 13.6 billion years old.

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and planets are formed.