New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round ...

Leo P, a tiny galaxy, stopped making stars after the universe’s reionization. Unlike most galaxies, it restarted billions of ...

Scientists are keen to get to the bottom of the dark matter puzzle because this phenomenon accounts for the vast majority of ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

Accessible to anyone the world over, witnessing the majesty of the solar system, including the Milky Way, and its billions of ...

The technology that would allow humans to leave the Milky Way is barely imaginable, but it seems the carbon and oxygen that ...

The matter then forms giant clouds that eventually condense into new stars surrounded by other objects, such as planets ... their original galaxy, including the Milky Way, and get turned into ...

This colorful view of N79 centers on a star-forming molecular cloud complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

A team that included University of Arizona astronomers captured the infrared image of the supermassive black hole using a Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.