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

The discovery of D9 disproves previously held opinions on the strength of black holes. In a first-of-its-kind discovery, a binary star has been found orbiting close to the supermassive black hole at ...

Astronomers have discovered an enormous gaseous structure in our own Milky Way made up of interconnected stellar nurseries. A newly released map of the Milky Way has revealed an enormous wave ...

A groundbreaking study led by Professor Tomonori Totani from the University of Tokyo analyzed 15 years of data from the Fermi telescope and reported the detection of a peculiar halo-like glow of gamma ...

Researchers have developed the first Milky Way simulation capable of tracking over 100 billion stars for ten thousand years.

NASA has shaken up the universe once again, this time through the discovery of the fastest object ever spotted, which ...

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way. The exoplanet, a gas giant named AT2021uey b, orbits a low-mass star and is located about 3,200 light-years away from Earth, ...

This image provided by NASA shows X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (represented in blue) that have been combined with infrared data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope (cyan, light ...

Scientists have discovered hundreds of galaxies just 250 million light years away from Earth, which had been hidden from view until now by Scientists have discovered hundreds of galaxies just 250 ...

Remains of ancient galactic mergers found in Milky Way. Pictured, an artist's concept illustrating the new view of the Milky Way. The galaxy's two major arms (Scutum-Centaurus and Perseus) can be seen ...

A mysterious object unlike anything ever seen before has been spotted by astronomers observing the Milky Way. Observations of the “spooky” item showed it releasing a giant burst of energy three times ...

Astronomers have discovered a small black hole in a cluster of stars outside the Milky Way. They found it by using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) to look at how ...