"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 sonification of the Milky Way galaxy's core has been turned into sheet music. Find out how it was done. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Jubett ...

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

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

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 ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish ... based MeerKAT radio telescope shows our home galaxy in a completely new way. Colored in blue, cyan, yellow and white, the main ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have found a bizarre phenomenon near the middle of our galaxy ... hole in the Milky Way. These previously unseen structures could be key in the transport of gas in space.

researchers unraveled the structure and evolution of the spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256, which is three times the size of the Milky Way. Using observations from the Hubble Space Telescope ...