ASTRONOMERS AT THE University of Galway are part of an international team of researchers who have discovered a new planet ...

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

In the past decade, the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behaviour of ...

Texas can lay claim to a lot of records: the tallest highway interchange, the longest leather belt and now discovery of the ...

Watch this amazing animation. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to discover REBELS-25, a Milky Way-like galaxy from the early universe. Credit:ESO Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis and Martin ...

Astronomers suspect the giant black hole at the heart of the Milky Way may have collided with another black hole in just the past 10 million years. At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light ...

An artist’s concept of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Scientists at Durham University used powerful supercomputers and fresh math tricks to peer into the cosmic unknown. What ...

New research suggests that the Milky Way should be surrounded by as many as 100 undetected tiny and faint "orphan" galaxy companions.

There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to astronomers.

By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery of dark matter.