The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star ...
The plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light-years from end to end - over 32 times the size of the Milky Way ...
In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...
The Milky Way seems to harbour a vast ripple spreading out across at least a quarter of its disc. But scientists have never confirmed it and some say that it doesn't exist at all. However, if it ...
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.
The Milky Way and thousands of other galaxies are drawn to "something": We have no idea what it is. The Great Attractor is a ...
In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...