Created using data from two extensive surveys, this spectacular radio image of the galactic plane of the Milky Way provides valuable insights into the birth and death of stars.

Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

First-light images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have revealed a 163,000-light-year stream of stars emanating from the ...

The JWST's MIRI detected a flare in Sagittarius A*, revealing for the first time in mid-infrared how an explosion occurs near ...

Summer stargazing season is in full swing, and the July night sky holds some great excuses to stay up late, including beautiful views of the Milky Way, the opportunity to see a “young” star, and early ...

The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic home gives us exclusive insight into its components, but it also hinders our ...

AI-boosted simulation models one hundred billion Milky Way stars over ten thousand years, achieving one hundred times the ...

Astrotourism continues to be one of the world's leading trends, and many travelers make big plans to cross oceans and ...

Scientists have made the first image of the Milky Way using neutrinos. The extremely low-mass subatomic particles have no electric charge, and pass easily through gas, dust and even stars on their way ...