A new view of the Milky Way: Warped and twisted Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is "warped and twisted" and not flat as previously thought, new research shows. Analysis of the brightest stars in the ...

Astronomers have observed a binary star system orbiting near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), published Tuesday in ...

The universe is filled with galaxies, including our own Milky Way. When pictured, galaxies appear like fairly set areas with ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.

The total mass of the Milky Way is estimated to be only two hundred billion times that of the sun (2.06 x 10 11 solar masses), marking a significant downward revision—approximately four to five ...

NASA's cutting-edge space telescopes continue to unravel the mysteries of the universe, capturing breathtaking images of ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe - called Firefly Sparkle because its gleaming star clusters resemble the ...