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

Deep in the galaxy’s central molecular zone (CMZ), surrounding the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center, clouds ...

Ancient Greek theories on the Milky Way galaxy ranged from mythology to science, with ideas from Democritus, Aristotle and ...

Space is a big place and there's lots of strange stuff out there, but scientists aren't quite sure where these massive space ...

Astronomers suggest there's a giant "star grinder" lurking at the center of the Milky Way, churning up star systems.

NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have detected a new giant molecular cloud in the Milky Way galaxy. The ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered the Firefly Sparkle galaxy, a young cosmic entity that may resemble the Milky ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

Astronomers have revealed that "space tornadoes" are swirling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky ...