Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most peculiar planetary systems in the entire galaxy.

By peering into the cosmic dance of stars, a team led by researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...

Los Angeles Lakers guard Austin Reaves' second signature sneaker is dropping in the "Milky Way" colorway the first week of ...

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...

Astronomers uncover a young galaxy similar to the Milky Way, shedding light on its early formation just 600 million years ...

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center ...

While stellar surveys continue to expand in volume, our view of the Milky Way remains severely obscured, with the vast majority of stars we can study concentrated around the sun. This discrepancy ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Veiled in gas and clouds, the Milky Way’s center does not easily give up secrets. The initial detection of its supermassive black hole (SMBH) decades ago posed as many riddles as it solved ...