Astronomers find strange, tornado-like filaments of gas rotating around the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, revealing ...

In the absolute omnishambles of the Milky Way galactic center, we've just found a new kind of turbulent structure.

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

Ancient Greek theories on the Milky Way galaxy ranged from mythology to science, with ideas from Democritus, Aristotle and ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters ...

Space is a big place and there's lots of strange stuff out there, but scientists aren't quite sure where these massive space ...

Aterrifying glimpse of a possible fate for our galaxy, the Milky Way, has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the ...