Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...

Far from the harsh galaxy center, they reached a location that is hospitable for life.

The Sun orbits in the thin disk of the Milky Way. It's located 27,000 light-years (8.3 kiloparsecs) from the Galactic Center, on the inner edge of the Orion spiral arm. It orbits around the galaxy ...

Now, astronomers have released the data from the largest-ever sky survey at radio wavelengths, revealing nearly 13.7 million celestial objects in light the human eye literally cannot see unaided. This ...

After a new upgrade, a neutrino observatory in Antarctica may identify dormant supermassive black holes within our galaxy.

A groundbreaking study in galactic archaeology proves the Sun made a treacherous journey to reach its current home in the Milky Way suburbs.

Section of the Line Intensity Map created by charting the distribution and concentration of excited hydrogen (via the Lyman alpha wavelength) in the universe ten billion years ago. The stars mark ...

Astronomers have found that both the core of our Milky Way and the earliest proto-galaxies in the universe share a surprising ...

The Sun, along with more than 1,500 other stars, journeyed from the middle of the Milky Way to its current position a few billion years ago.

An international research team has found that the Milky Way and its galactic neighbors appear to sit inside a vast, flat concentration of dark matter, a structure stretching roughly 10 megaparsecs and ...

Each spring, amateur astronomers attempt the ultimate stargazing challenge—an overnight quest to spot every galaxy, nebula, ...

Our sun was born 4.6 billion years ago near the crowded center of the Milky Way and then migrated roughly 10,000 light-years outward to the peaceful galactic suburbs it currently occupies. Now a pair ...