Nasa may have discovered the youngest black hole in the Milky Way. The agency's Chandra X-ray Observatory caught the remnant galaxy W49B with what ...
There are at least 17 billion Earth-sized planets in our galaxy, scientists have announced. In fact there could be many, many more. Astronomers ...
A spectacular simulation of a black hole at the centre of our galaxy devouring a massive cloud of super-hot gas has been released. The images were ...
The largest and most detailed photograph of our galaxy ever taken has been unveiled. The gigantic nine-gigapixel image captures more than 84 millio...
A giant flare of energy erupting from the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy has been caught on camera by Nasa. The NuStar (Nuclea...
Nasa has discovered a new black hole in our own galaxy. The Swift satellite made the find after a rare burst of X-rays from a source near the centr...
The Milky Way galaxy is "embedded" in a giant halo of hot gas which extends for hundreds of thousands of light years, Nasa studies suggest. If the ...
Nasa has revealed a new picture of the oldest stars in the galaxy. The Hubble Space Telescope captured the shot of what appears to be thousands...
The night sky looks peaceful at the moment, but over the next few billion years, the heavens are going to liven up a great deal, because our Milky Way...
Above: The collision of Andromeda and the Milky Way, as pictured by Nasa The Milky Way is on a collision course with another galaxy, and the ...
Time-lapse videos of the Earth, space, the universe and all the night sky's infinite glory are, well, becoming quite common online. As a result des...
A cannibal galaxy with a powerful core has been revealed by two new images from the Herschel Space Observatory and the XMM-Newton x-ray satellite. ...
Around one billion stars in the Milky Way can be seen together for the first time in an image captured over a decade by astronomers. Scientists pro...
Nasa's selected photos of the week capture other-worldly vistas of Earth and space, showing Jupiter's moons, a star being born, and pictures from the ...
These stunning images capture the glory of the Milky Way and are taken with just a simple digital camera. Revealing the Earth's place in our swirli...
It may look like a Martian landscape but these stunning pictures are actually of the Milky Way, taken from the Snowdonia National Park in Wales . ...
A team of scientists have determined the true colour of the galaxy is so white it would resemble fresh snow to the human eye. Astronomers from the...
The Milky Way galaxy may contain billions of habitable planets, astronomers have said. The discovery raises the tantalising possibility that life c...
Next time a child asks you where stars come from, point them straight to this new discovery of tiny star-spawning galaxies from Nasa's Hubble telescop...
Astronomers have discovered 96 new 'open star clusters' that were previously hidden by dust in the Milky Way. The stunning pictures of the relative...
