Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space. The so-called "sleeping giant," named Gaia BH3, has a mass that ...

For most of human history, the Milky Way has been a hazy band of light, a backdrop rather than a map. Now, by reading the ...

The distance to one of the Milky Way's next-door neighbors, a satellite galaxy that orbits its outskirts, has been determined more accurately than ever before, astronomers announced today (March 6).

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...