The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

The observation of titanic jets emerging from the supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy could be a grim ...

The CMZ is a region of clouds rich in dust and molecular gas that roils around the galactic nucleus. It measures up to 2,000 ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Aterrifying glimpse of a possible fate for our galaxy, the Milky Way, has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

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

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

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

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...