When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op. Milky Way season, when the galaxy's bright ...

Black holes — how do they work? New images of the magnetic field of the black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, may help us understand them a little better. The new view of the ...

The heart of our galaxy is serving up cosmic pyrotechnics like never before. The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is giving a ceaseless "fireworks" extravaganza visible around ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The new image of a young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud combines data from different ...

Scientists announced Thursday that they had taken the first zoomed-in image of a dying star outside of the Milky Way galaxy. The star is located 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, ...

The new study reports the detection of a mysterious halo-like glow of gamma rays around the Milky Way, peaking sharply at ...