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 ...

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

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has around 150 ...

A recent discovery of a magnetic halo surrounding the Milky Way galaxy could significantly alter our understanding of ...

The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...

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

Astronomers have spotted a massive pair of jets releasing material from a distant black hole. The jets are so large they span ...

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

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

Astronomers have identified the largest black hole jet structure known, named Porphyrion, stretching 23 million light-years ...