A new low-frequency radio image offers the most comprehensive view yet of the Milky Way’s southern sky. Astronomers at the International Center of (ICRAR) have produced the most detailed low-frequency ...

New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed ...

There are hundreds of billions of alien worlds in the Milky Way galaxy. And scientists have already discovered and confirmed ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy 160,000 light-years away, is one of the Milky Way’s closest neighbours.

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the Milky Way’s closest companions, continues to astonish astronomers with its prolific stellar activity and explosive past. A recent visual captured by an ...

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy containing 100-400 billion stars. Planet Earth sits along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms. Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times ...

Milky Way All Caramel “brings the brand's gooey caramel into the spotlight,” per an announcement shared with PEOPLE Milky Way Milky Way All Caramel hits stores nationally beginning in January 2026 The ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star ...

We cannot see or image the entire Milky Way galaxy, because we are located inside it. From Earth, we can observe only a portion of the galaxy, and when we look up at the dark, clear night sky from a ...

So it’s confession time: I’ve been lying to you. I’ve said on many occasions that our Milky Way galaxy has a flat disk (like in this column or this one). But it’s not really flat—not even for a ...

The Milky Way is a rich and complex environment. We see it as a luminous line stretching across the night sky, composed of innumerable stars. But that’s just the visible light. Observing the sky in ...

Researchers using new simulations suggest that the Milky Way’s past collisions may have reshaped its dark matter core. This distorted structure could naturally explain the puzzling gamma-ray glow long ...