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

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

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

ALMA’s most ambitious galactic survey yet exposes a wild, filament-filled stellar nursery at the very heart of the Milky Way. Astronomers have produced a remarkable new view of the center of the Milky ...

Astronomers in Leiden have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in northern Chile to produce a new ...

What if the Milky Way’s central “black hole” isn’t a black hole at all? A new model proposes that an ultra-dense dark matter core could mimic its gravitational pull.

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 ...

For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. Most galaxies are carried outward with the flow ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...