Milky Way season, when the galaxy's bright center is visible, is underway. The best viewing time in the Northern Hemisphere is from March to September. The Milky Way can be seen without special ...

New ALMA observations reveal a complex network of gas filaments in the Milky Way’s central 650 light-years, enabling detailed studies of star formation in extreme galactic conditions.

This map is part of ACES — the ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey — a project designed to understand how gas condenses into stars in ...

A team of astronomers led by researchers at the University of Groningen has identified a colossal sheet of dark matter and ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way, is slowly moving toward us at incredible speed. Astronomers ...

A new study published in Nature Astronomy indicates that the dense, star- and dark-matter–rich environments around supermassive black hole binaries pack on the order of a million solar masses into ...

For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by its gravity. New simulations reveal the answer: our galaxy sits in a ...

Most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local Group of galaxies (which includes the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy) must be ...

Billions of stars fill our galaxy that become visible at certain times of year. And in the U.S., that time, known as "Milky ...

Using the Chile-based ALMA telescope, the researchers examined the dynamics and chemistry of a central region.

Scientists using the ALMA telescope have created the most-detailed-ever map of the Milky Way's chaotic center. The observations could open a window to the ancient universe as it appeared shortly ...