Ever wondered why our galaxy is called the Milky Way? The name hints at ancient skies and the bright band we’ve long noticed overhead. Join me as we uncover what that name reveals about our place in t ...

Supermassive black holes lurk at the centers of massive galaxies, including our own Milky Way. Puzzlingly, supermassive black ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a slow-rotating galaxy, XMM-VID1-2075, from the early universe, ...

Astronomers have long known that neutron stars, the crushed cores left behind after massive stars explode, should be scattered throughout the Milky Way galaxy. However, most of them are effectively ...

Astronomers have discovered another neighbour orbiting our home galaxy, the Milky Way — and it could be the faintest satellite dwarf galaxy discovered so far. Researchers from Tohoku University in ...

A new type of self-interacting dark matter could provide solutions to three very different cosmic puzzles, new research ...

The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature ’s photo team.

This artist's concept shows an isolated neutron star as an ultra-dense stellar remnant, packing more mass than the Sun into a ...

Across the Milky Way galaxy, a planetary odd couple is circling a star some 190 light years from Earth. A normally “lonely” ...