A groundbreaking study in galactic archaeology proves the Sun made a treacherous journey to reach its current home in the Milky Way suburbs.

This unique region, photographed in detail for the first time, features clouds of cosmic gas and dust with a density orders ...

A new photo taken by the world's most powerful telescope shows a 6-quadrillion-kilometre span of our galaxy.

The Milky Way’s centre looks nothing like the calm band of starlight you see from a dark hillside. In a new, ultra-wide radio mosaic, the region turns into a tangle of cold, threadlike gas structures.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artistic representation of the Milky Way, where the innermost stars move at near relativistic speeds (defined as velocities that ...

For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by its gravity. New simulations reveal the answer: our galaxy sits in a ...

Researchers at King's College London have found that a peculiar form of dark matter could be behind three baffling signals ...

The Milky may not have a supermassive black hole at its centre, scientists claim. Until now, it has been widely believed that our galaxy contains both a supermassive black hole at its core and a ...

Learn more about the incredibly detailed image of the Milky Way and what researchers can learn from it.

A particular kind of dark matter can explain multiple mysterious signals coming from the centre of our galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope ...

Because I’m based in the northern hemisphere, my suggestions of what to look for in the skies can sometimes be skewed towards what we can see from that half of the planet. So, in this month’s column I ...

Most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local Group of galaxies (which includes the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy) must be ...