A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a beautiful barred spiral galaxy, but we will never see what it looks like from the outside. It ...

In fact, these jets often expand into wide plumes or “lobes” that fan out far above and below their host galaxies. The jets ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

The Milky Way Motel is a 17-room boutique hotel from architect and developer Kyle Resmondo that will join the hip nightlife ...

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...

This image by Taiwanese photographer Shang Yao-Yuan shows that you don't need the latest kit to capture the cosmos ...

The new study reports the detection of a mysterious halo-like glow of gamma rays around the Milky Way, peaking sharply at ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

A new study reports a massive ancient galaxy. It formed when the universe was very young. The universe today is 13.8 billion ...