A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as it tracks a course to collide with neighboring galaxies, a University ...

A University of Queensland study suggests that the Milky Way is on a collision course with neighboring galaxies, predicting a ...

Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.

A recent discovery sheds light on a bizarre phenomenon at the center of our Milky Way: the detection of cold hydrogen clouds embedded within the superheated Fermi bubbles, vast structures of gas and ...

A black hole with a mass equivalent to 36 billion suns—10,000 times heavier than the one at the center of the Milky Way —has been discovered around 5 billion light-years from Earth. It may be the ...

Twin orbs of superhot plasma at the Milky Way's center known as the "Fermi bubbles" contain inexplicable clouds of cold hydrogen, new research reveals. They could help scientists figure out when our ...

Hubble’s latest portrait of the Tarantula Nebula reveals a turbulent star-making region far beyond the Milky Way. Located 160 ...

At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 million times more massive than the sun. The idea is that Sgr A* scarfed down ...

Astronomers have discovered potentially the most massive black hole ever detected. The cosmic behemoth is close to the ...

The black hole, spotted 5 billion light-years away in the Cosmic Horseshoe, could be the most massive ever found.

A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as it tracks a course to collide with neighbouring galaxies, a new survey has found.