Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan were surprised by their study results, which they say are "indisputable." ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals turbulent environments found in Sagittarius C, a core part of our Milky Way galaxy.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

In recent years, one of the most troubling puzzles in astrophysics has grown more urgent. Scientists have realized that the ...

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to the Milky Way — is being torn apart by its larger neighbor.

Our sun and the planets that circle it are part of a galaxy called the Milky Way. Its name comes from the Greek galaxias ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching colossal jets of energy, something once thought possible only in elliptical ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

Scientists have discovered that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is larger than should be expected considering the size of our local galactic neighborhood. A viral video of a giant red moon rising ...

Measuring ongoing vibrations in the disk of the Milky Way — a kind of galactic seismology, Dr. Brown explained — has also led to evidence of an encounter with a satellite galaxy that orbits ...