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 ...

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

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

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

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

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

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 ...

Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have detected a new giant molecular cloud in the Milky Way galaxy. The ...