Using the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) MeerKAT telescope, Ian Heywood of the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics and his colleagues mapped out broad regions in the centre ...

PD Dr Philipp Girichidis at Heidelberg University’s Centre for Astronomy provide insights into our place in the Milky Way and ...

The ‘glow’ is in the form of gamma radiation and was spotted by scientists in data from NASA’s Fermi space telescope in 2009. (VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) ...

A mysterious red glow at the centre of the Milky Way has been detected for the first time. It shines out of an area known as the 'Tilted Disk' - and could shed light on the fundamental source of our ...

Astronomers recently discovered a never-before-seen celestial phenomenon hiding in our own cosmic backyard. The mystery object, located just a short 15,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way ...

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

Something is keeping cosmic rays out of the centre of the galaxy. The Milky Way is suffused with a sea of high-energy particles spewed out by supernovae and other energetic astrophysical objects, but ...

Huge bursts of radio energy emanating from the Milky Way were first observed by a university student - Copyright AFP/File Philip FONG Huge bursts of radio energy ...

The black hole appears to have a vestigial jet dating back thousands of years. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has not captured an image of the jet but has helped find evidence suggesting it is ...

April Klaphake of Sauk Centre and Heidi Montag of Sauk Rapids will be among 10 vying for the crown on Aug. 20 at the ...