The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds clues about when it formed and what the galaxy was like at the time. Over ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

A globular cluster near the heart of the Milky Way is gradually dissolving, according to a new study published on arXiv, ...

What can the gamma ray light emitted by the Milky Way Galaxy teach scientists about the existence of dark matter? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Letters hopes to address as a ...

A new study shows how Milky Way chemical tracks emerge from shifting star formation and gas supply, reshaping ideas about the ...

Astronomers used a telescope to look into the heart of our galaxy, the Milky Way, in great detail and found a surprising bit of history. The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope spied ...

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What's the size of the Milky Way galaxy? Learn how, depending on your definition, the size can change.