One other thing the Gaia data has been clarifying is that the Milky Way's disk is not serene and flat, but warped and ...

Math and physics explain the anguish of a golf ball that zings around the rim of the hole instead of falling in.

Astronomers recently built a precise radio map of the Milky Way’s southern midline, showing 98,000 radio sources.

Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third confirmed interstellar object ever spotted, travelling over 130,000 mph and carrying chemical signatures older than our Sun ...

A pair of quasars that existed when the universe was only 3 billion years old has been spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Astronomers have discovered a giant, 500-light-year-wide cavity between two star-forming regions in the constellations Perseus and Taurus. An ancient supernova could be the culprit.