A peculiar gamma-ray glow from the heart of the Milky Way has left astronomers scratching their heads. This strange emission, ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

Astronomers from ICRAR, primarily based at Curtin University, have released the most detailed low-frequency radio image of ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have detected the building blocks of life in ice outside the Milky Way for the ...

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio ...

Do the building blocks of life exist beyond the Milky Way, and can we identify them? This is what a recent study published in ...

A mystery star located at the heart of the Milky Way could very well be from another galaxy, new research shows. The star is known as an S-star, and it is part of a swarm of stars found near ...

For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have discovered a black hole with a mass about 33 times greater than that of our sun, the biggest one known in the Milky Way aside from the supermassive black hole ...

All the life we know of in the entire universe is squeezed onto a tiny rock, floating in a minor arm of the Milky Way. There are billions of other planets with the potential to support life. But what ...