Our time with our interstellar visitor, comet 3I/ATLAS, is almost up. It’s set to leave the solar system soon, after zipping ...

Deep inside the Milky Way, an invisible force is quietly holding everything together — its magnetic field. Now, researchers have created one of the most detailed maps ever of this hidden structure, ...

At the center of the Milky Way, close to the pull of a supermassive black hole, astronomers have found a strange new radio signal that behaves like a slow, steady clock. This object is more than an ...

The Milky Way is at least 100,000 light-years across, but the new results suggest that the galaxy's star formation takes ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. An international team reported Wednesday that this celestial object — perhaps a star, pair of stars or something else entirely ...