The Milky Way, one of astronomy’s most dazzling phenomena, is our home galaxy with a disk of stars spanning more than 100,000 ...

First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way’s core, appears to be ionised (meaning it is electrically charged because it has lost electrons ...

Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way in shape, size, and stellar mass." Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever ...

The immensely dense object is one of 30 known magnetars in the Milky Way, which are the dead remnants ... “What makes magnetars unique is their extreme magnetic fields, billions of times ...