milky way galaxy

From dangerous lion reserves to high mountain peaks, photographers go all out to capture the most spectacular images of our galaxy in this year's Milky Way Photographer of the Year competition.

A stunning new map of the magnetic fields at the Milky Way's center charts never-before-seen features, and raises new questions about how our galaxy's central engine works.

Peering deep into 'The Brick,' a dark, chaotic gas cloud at the heart of the Milky Way, the James Webb Space Telescope uncovered secrets that could shake up theories of star formation.

A Milky Way doppleganger discovered in the early universe suggests some key physical ingredient is missing from cosmological models.

New research suggests that the mysterious Fermi and eROSITA bubbles originated form a single 100,000-year-long explosion 2.6 million years ago

Astronomers are hoping to use the wake of stars to test the existing theories of dark matter.

Astrophysicists think a newly discovered region of the Milky Way could provide hints about the evolution of our galaxy and its potentially violent past.

The Hyades — the closest star cluster to our sun — is being stretched by an invisible 'lump,' researchers say.

A gigantic black hole 15,000 light-years from our planet is twice as massive as what researchers thought was possible in our own galaxy.

It's a straightforward question, but not an easy one to answer.