A distant galaxy nicknamed "Cosmic Grapes" is bursting with massive star-forming clumps — far more than expected — offering ...

The impending merger of the two galaxies hints at what might be in store for the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy if and ...

New evidence suggests that a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way called Ursa Major III is actually a star cluster.

The post Oldest Galaxy That Formed 280 million Years After The Big Bang Has Been Identified And Proves Yet Again How ...

Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space. The so-called "sleeping giant," named Gaia BH3, has a mass ...

Ursa Major III, the faintest object in our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more than 30,000 light years. Until ...

A groundbreaking study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics has revealed that the supermassive black hole at the center of ...

A new analysis of the EHT reveals that Sagittarius A*, the central black hole of the Milky Way, is spinning rapidly and ...

Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they were independent galaxies, extremely large and distant.

The Milky Way is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky throughout the United States, including Ohio.

Astronomers identified what they believed was a lone brown dwarf orbiting a bright single star. Then they looked more closely.