The image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope.

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile.

Hubble captures the aftermath of the Large Magellanic Cloud’s dramatic encounter with the Milky Way, revealing the loss of ...

Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, also called the LMC, is one of the Milky Way galaxy's nearest neighbors ... Most ultraviolet light is blocked by the Earth's atmosphere, so it cannot be observed ...

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...

Pismis 24 is a small open star cluster located in the core of the NGC 6357 emission nebula, which is about 8,000 light-years ...

Scientists have supercharged one of Earth's most powerful telescopes with ... It will show how our Milky Way galaxy was built up over billions of years. Prof Gavin Dalton of Oxford University ...