By MARCIA DUNNCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy.An international team...

Boeing and the Justice Department reached a deal that would allow the plane-maker to avoid prosecution for a fraud charge tied to the 737 Ma...

WASHINGTON: Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe’s history that surprisingly is shaped much like ou...

Mind-boggling beauty abounds in photographs from around the globe submitted to this year's Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest.

For those in midlatitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, the arc of our galaxy becomes easier to see in May. Here's when and where to look.

The interstellar feature appears to adorn a rather unusual depiction of the sky goddess Nut.

Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This unusually fast spe...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The perplexing Milky...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan were surprised by their study results, which they say are "indisputable."

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields affect star form...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as "the discovery m...

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

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

While sifting out signatures of supernova remnants, a high-schooler stumbled upon the afterglow of a dormant black hole. It may be one of th...

The fully formed galaxy is remarkably teeny, raising new questions about how galaxies emerge and evolve.