Astronomers find strange, tornado-like filaments of gas rotating around the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, revealing ...

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

Aterrifying glimpse of a possible fate for our galaxy, the Milky Way, has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Ancient Greek theories on the Milky Way galaxy ranged from mythology to science, with ideas from Democritus, Aristotle and ...