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

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 ...

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

Los Angeles Lakers guard Austin Reaves' second signature sneaker is dropping in the "Milky Way" colorway the first week of ...

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

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

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

While stellar surveys continue to expand in volume, our view of the Milky Way remains severely obscured, with the vast majority of stars we can study concentrated around the sun. This discrepancy ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Veiled in gas and clouds, the Milky Way’s center does not easily give up secrets. The initial detection of its supermassive black hole (SMBH) decades ago posed as many riddles as it solved ...