A series of high-resolution simulations has revealed a striking new perspective on theMilky Way’s position in the cosmos. Far ...

For decades, scientists have suspected the presence of a magnetic field that holds the Milky Way together, but only now has ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

Deneb, Vega and Altair are among the brightest stars in the night sky.

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...

New radio observations of the Milky Way are exposing hidden patterns in its magnetic field. People have scanned the night sky ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang.

Astronomers evaluate how the Vera C. Rubin Observatory can detect and localize the next Milky Way core-collapse supernova using neutrino alerts and optical surveys.

Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the ...

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent results from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), including reports of ...