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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.

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

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

Learn how many suns exist in the Milky Way and how to understand how many sun-like stars are out there could help us ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...