The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic ...

A new study led by the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), and with contributions from Radboud University's Marijke ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken things to the extreme, studying the outer edge of our own galaxy, the Milky Way and ...

The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy may already be colliding after it was discovered that galaxies may have gas halos far ...

New research, utilizing data from the Gaia space telescope, suggests that the Milky Way's last significant collision occurred ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...

We now know that black holes occur frequently throughout the universe. One Sagittarius A* sits at the center of our galaxy, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has recorded spectacular images of star formation in the extreme outer reaches of the Milky ...

Astronomers have examined the Extreme Outer Galaxy, also known as the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy, using the ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call ...

An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek ...