A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy could portend a terrifying future for life in the Milky Way. The discovery suggests that our models of galactic evolution could be inaccurate.

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

Space is a big place and there's lots of strange stuff out there, but scientists aren't quite sure where these massive space ...

Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have detected a new giant molecular cloud in the Milky Way galaxy. The ...

The outflow is about 625 light-years from Earth in one of the closest star-forming regions of our Milky Way galaxy, according to NASA. A light-year is equivalent to almost 6 trillion miles.

An undated image from NASA’s Webb Space Telescope shows an outflow from a nearby still-forming star in infrared light, with a spiral galaxy off in the distance. (NASA via AP) 32,615 people ...

Ancient Greek philosophers debated the Milky Way’s nature, with some attributing it to celestial fires and others viewing it as a dense cluster of distant stars. Credit: Ale RaFlo, CC BY-SA 4.0 via ...

In 1987, astronomers witnessed a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. But just before the flash of light appeared, detectors around the world ...

This revelation not only challenges our current models of galaxy evolution but hints that the Milky Way could someday unleash similar jets, potentially endangering life on Earth. The galaxy in ...

Astronomers have finally identified the source of mysterious radio waves from deep space, tracing the signals back to an unusual stellar pair locked in a swift orbit, flashing out their location ...