They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy, but how well do we actually know it? As part of a NASA-funded project, a team led by Villanova University researchers has obtained a never-before-seen view of the ...

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile. The ...

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere – trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

“This is quite a technical feat. Imagine a group photo of over three billion people and every single individual is recognizable!” said Debra Fischer, division director of Astronomical Sciences at NSF ...

Never-before-seen details of the Milky Way's spiral arms have been revealed through chemical mapping. This pioneering technique, called chemical cartography, has unveiled new regions of our galaxy's ...

Observing and studying our own galaxy, the Milky Way, can be a bit like trying to take in the view of an entire forest while standing inside it. But instead of trees obscuring the view, it's gas and ...

The wonders of our galaxy are on full display in a new infrared map of the Milky Way, showing a stunning 1.5 billion objects using data collected over 13 years. Researchers used the European Southern ...

Using a sample of 4,700 blue horizontal-branch stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the research team showed that the oldest stars are concentrated in the central region of the galaxy, confirming ...

From a window on the International Space Station, astronauts have captured a rare view of a nearby galaxy caught in the act ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way has long looked quiet, a dim and seemingly dormant presence compared with the blazing monsters in distant galaxies. New X-ray observations ...