Scientists at NASA, utilizing the Chandra X-ray Observatory, have unveiled a significant finding that indicates the outer ...

New measurements suggest that two of the Milky Way's spiral arms are around 10% farther away from Earth than we thought. The ...

Researchers have discovered that our galaxy's outermost spiral arms are wide open and farther away than we thought ...

The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope was built to study dark matter and dark energy, but for one day last year, it captured the densely packed stars brightening the center of our galaxy ...

As a galactic archaeologist, my job is to reconstruct the past of our galaxy – and read the signs of its future.

NASA will begin mapping the galactic bulge with a mission later this summer.

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

A team of astronomers has discovered that the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy may stretch further out into space than was ...

What can the gamma ray light emitted by the Milky Way Galaxy teach scientists about the existence of dark matter? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Letters hopes to address as a ...

Astronomers have achieved one of the most precise measurements ever made of the Milky Way’s distant spiral arms, revealing ...

On a clear night, it can feel as though the sky is packed with ...