Astronomers have unveiled the largest low-frequency radio color image of the Milky Way ever created, offering a sprawling, interactive cosmic panorama with unprecedented detail.

The second of three images of ESO’s GigaGalaxy Zoom project has just been released online. It is a new and wonderful 340-million-pixel vista of the central parts of our home galaxy as seen from ESO’s ...

(CNN) – A celestial object was spotted with the help of citizen scientists moving so fast through the Milky Way, that it could escape the galaxy’s gravity and go intergalactic. The object, which ...

A jaw-droppingly fast star that is one of the oldest in the galaxy has been spotted racing across our galaxy by astronomers—who were looking for something else entirely. The scientists noticed the ...

Supermassive black holes – the name given to black holes whose mass is more than 1,000,000 times the mass of the sun – can be found at the center of many galaxies. Scientists from the Weizmann ...