The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

See that bright object in the sky? That’s Andromeda – the closest major galaxy to our Milky Way and the most distant thing ...

Astronomers from Cardiff University, UK, have employed the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) ...

Milky Way All Caramel “brings the brand's gooey caramel into the spotlight,” per an announcement shared with PEOPLE Milky Way Milky Way All Caramel hits stores nationally beginning in January 2026 The ...

A puzzling ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could come from the destruction of nuggets of dark matter, the mysterious stuff that makes up around a quarter of the matter and energy in the ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been revealed by a new study. The research, published in Monthly Notices of the ...

This image shows the gas disc in a computer simulation of a Milky Way-like galaxy from the Auriga suite. Colors represent the ratio of magnesium (Mg) to iron (Fe), revealing that the galactic center ...

We cannot see or image the entire Milky Way galaxy, because we are located inside it. From Earth, we can observe only a portion of the galaxy, and when we look up at the dark, clear night sky from a ...

The original Mass Effect trilogy is pretty cool. But know what’s really cool? Mass Effect: Andromeda. Tomatoes down, please! Of course, grass that’s 2.537 million light years away isn’t always greener ...

So it’s confession time: I’ve been lying to you. I’ve said on many occasions that our Milky Way galaxy has a flat disk (like in this column or this one). But it’s not really flat—not even for a ...

The Milky Way is a rich and complex environment. We see it as a luminous line stretching across the night sky, composed of innumerable stars. But that’s just the visible light. Observing the sky in ...