Scientists are investigating enigmatic phenomena observed in the center of our galaxy. Telescopes are detecting mysterious ...

Astronomers think there could be as many as 100 million black holes in our galaxy, most with a similar mass to our Sun, but ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals turbulent environments found in Sagittarius C, a core part of our Milky Way galaxy.

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...

The halo is more extended that astronomers originally thought, and contains enough hydrogen gas to resolve the problem of the ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known ...

The rotating disk galaxy, mostly made up of dark matter, was discovered within a larger cloud of fast-moving hydrogen gas.

Back when the Universe was new, following the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago, galaxies took a bit of time to assemble ...

In recent years, one of the most troubling puzzles in astrophysics has grown more urgent. Scientists have realized that the ...