For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a fleeting, spectral flash from the Milky Way’s central black hole, a signal that ...

A mysterious, high-energy glow from gamma-rays in the Milky Way's center is reigniting the debate: dark matter or a hidden ...

A record-breaking number of stars has been mapped by a new model that speeds up processing time while allowing smaller scale ...

The current rate of star formation at the Galactic Center appears to be lower than in the rest of the Galaxy. A new study led ...

A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this strange place holds thousands of newborn stars, huge clouds of gas, and ...

Researchers have successfully performed the world's first Milky Way simulation that accurately represents more than 100 ...

So it’s confession time: I’ve been lying to you. I’ve said on many occasions that our Milky Way galaxy has a flat disk (like ...

Researchers led by Keiya Hirashima at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS) ...

Ever stared straight at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy? Give it a try this coming week. With dark skies and no moon, the time is right. Notice I didn't say into the heart. No human eyes can ...

The Milky Way is a self-gravitating system primarily focused on converting interstellar gas into new stars, with the rate of star formation directly related to gas density, consistent with the ...