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Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

A new study suggests the Milky Way’s gamma-ray glow could be a dark matter signal shaped by ancient galactic mergers.

Astronomers recently built a precise radio map of the Milky Way’s southern midline, showing 98,000 radio sources.

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio ...

The wide frequency coverage of GLEAM gave astronomers the first "radio colour" map of the sky, including the galaxy itself.

For decades, astronomers have been vying to identify a source for a mysterious gamma-ray excess at the center of the Milky ...

Learn about the closest black hole from Earth, Gaia BH1. This recently discovered black hole is dormant, but it’s only 1,600 ...

A stronomers in Australia have created the largest and most detailed low-frequency radio image ever made of the Milky Way, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

One other thing the Gaia data has been clarifying is that the Milky Way's disk is not serene and flat, but warped and ...