"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion ...

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

open image in gallery A group of researchers say they’ve found mysterious ‘space tornadoes’ in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. They used the largest astronomical project in existence to ...

A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy could portend a terrifying future for life in the Milky Way. The discovery suggests ... outburst using the Hubble Space Telescope, the Giant Metrewave ...

Some three times the size of our Milky Way, the galaxy lies nearly ... Radio Telescope in India and the Hubble Space Telescope. They found that the galaxy has an enormous supermassive black ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone ... new filamentary structure in this mysterious region of space. Although the galaxy's central molecular zone (CMZ) has long been known to be ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on. After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space ... the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters could play an important role in distributing organic molecules throughout the galaxy.

Space, to the naked eye ... The general notion that the core of our galaxy, called the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) is an active place is not a new one. The forces that power the Mixmaster of the ...