Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by ...

High-velocity clouds are thought to be material that is being pulled into another galaxy, in this case the Milky Way, and many are thought to be made of material left over from another galaxy that ...

Two images of the Milky Way galaxy. The top is captured with visible light and the bottom is the first-ever captured with neutrinos.

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way in shape, size, and stellar mass." Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever ...

It also fulfilled its primary goal of drawing the biggest and most precise map of the Milky Way, providing the clearest reconstructed view of how our galaxy might appear to an outside observer.

That’s why it might sound pretty scary to learn that scientists now believe the center of the Milky Way galaxy — that’s where we are, in case you had forgotten — is teeming with black holes.