Created using data from two extensive surveys, this spectacular radio image of the galactic plane of the Milky Way provides ...

"No low-frequency radio image of the entire Southern Galactic Plane has been published before, making this an exciting ...

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our ...

Look up at the night sky and you might feel dwarfed by the glimmer of countless stars. Now shift that view downward, press your mind to the ground and the green world under your feet—and you’ll find ...

The Milky Way is a rich and complex environment. We see it as a luminous line stretching across the night sky, composed of ...

New research suggests that dark matter may be the key to uncovering the mysteries of the Milky Way. The scientific team led ...

Observations show the disk of our galaxy is not flat but warped and waving. Astronomers are still working out the reasons why ...

A handful of extremely massive stars, each heavier than 1,000 Suns, may have sculpted the chemistry of the oldest star ...

Astronomers recently built a precise radio map of the Milky Way’s southern midline, showing 98,000 radio sources.

Astronomers have captured the most detailed radio-colour map of the Milky Way, revealing tens of thousands of sources and ...

The motions of stars in the Milky Way have revealed a giant outward ripple, set off by a massive event sometime in our galaxy ...

If you could see it from the outside, the Milky Way would look like a majestic spiral of stars and glowing gas, rotating on its axis once every 200 million years or so like a gigantic, pinwheel ...