Learn how many suns exist in the Milky Way and how to understand how many sun-like stars are out there could help us ...

Deep in the heart of our galaxy, there is a faint but powerful glow that has puzzled scientists for more than a decade.

Scientists have built detailed Milky Way simulations under strange new physical laws to probe dark matter, revealing how different versions of the universe might behave and helping us get closer to ...

The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how galaxies formed in the early universe.

"It's possible we will see the new data and confirm one theory over the other — or maybe we'll find nothing, in which case it ...

New research that used imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope gives credence to a scientific theory that says the Milky Way is inside of a black hole Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend ...

A two-year NASA mission is using research from a University of Arizona team to discover the origins of the Milky Way and the universe. SPHEREx, or Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...