A massive galaxy that appeared less than two billion years after the Big Bang does not rotate on itself. This specimen, named ...

Northwestern researchers used ALMA to map galactic-center carbon monoxide gas 100 times more deeply than ever before and ...

New research, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, heralds the presence of dense dark matter at the center of the Milky Way despite the prevailing theory that Sagittarius A* ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its centre but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark matter exerting the same gravitational influence. (Nanowerk News) Astronomers ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia space telescope has ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. When will the Milky Way collide with the Andromeda Galaxy?

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A collision between ...

Unusual stellar remnants suggest the Milky Way might have eaten a galaxy called Loki billions of years ago, according to new ...

What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...