"It's only because this object is so extreme that we can observe it from Earth, even though it's really far away," Anniek ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...

Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...

This suggests planetary formation follows the evolution of a ... the stellar systems can migrate to the outer regions of the Milky Way, it gives a better focus on the hunt for planetary systems ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

The Bullseye galaxy earned its nickname thanks to its wild number of rings. A smaller galaxy shot through its heart 50 ...

“As far as we can tell, the dominant outcome of planet formation in the Milky Way is to produce these super-Earths and sub-Neptunes,” Hallatt says. But as a population, stars in the thick disk ...