Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most peculiar planetary systems in the entire galaxy.

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

By peering into the cosmic dance of stars, a team led by researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center ...

Astronomers uncover a young galaxy similar to the Milky Way, shedding light on its early formation just 600 million years ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a baby, Milky Way-like galaxy that formed more than 13 billion years ...

International researchers recently spotted a pair of stars orbiting around one another in surprisingly close proximity to ...

Astrophysicists are marveling at the latest celestial discovery made near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. Scientists ...

"Black holes are not as destructive as we thought. It seems plausible that the detection of planets in the galactic center is ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe - called Firefly Sparkle because ...