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 ...

The most sensitive, widest-area, low-frequency radio map of the Milky Way has been produced, presenting an image of our galaxy well beyond anything previously achieved at these wavelengths. Combining ...

One of those ground-based telescopes is the Rubin Observatory, named after famed astronomer Vera Rubin. Unlike other ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 long-term survey of small, “satellite” galaxies that orbit larger galaxies across the universe offers new insights into our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Since 2012, the Satellites Around Galactic ...