Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way ...

Near the center of the Milky Way are enormous filaments of radio energy that sometimes look like bones, and one in particular ...

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...

Possible dark galaxy discovered near Milky Way Emits no visible light, made of hydrogen and dark matter Detected using Green ...

The fast-moving gas cloud could help explain the so-called missing satellite problem, if the object is what scientists think ...

The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside Sagittarius C, blasting out powerful jets of gas as they develop. They also ...

After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

Prior to the current finding, all black holes that scientists have ever identified have been spotted with a companion star.

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...