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.

For billions of years before reaching its current location, the Sun may have slowly travelled as part of a large group, or “wave,” of stars drifting out from the inner parts of the Milky Way. This ...

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.

Using the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) MeerKAT telescope, Ian Heywood of the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics and his colleagues mapped out broad regions in the centre ...

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

The research makes use of data coming from telescopes deep in the Milky Way.

Huge bursts of radio energy emanating from the Milky Way were first observed by a university student - Copyright AFP/File Philip FONG Huge bursts of radio energy ...

Something is keeping cosmic rays out of the centre of the galaxy. The Milky Way is suffused with a sea of high-energy particles spewed out by supernovae and other energetic astrophysical objects, but ...