Shane Turgeon says he's been chasing the light ever since he had a nervous breakdown in 2012."It scared the hell out of me, ...
We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...
The answer is: a radio telescope that can track hydrogen in the Milky Way as well as the velocities ... as per the above graphic by [Jack Phelps]. The solid lines are low-loss microwave coax ...
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Summer is the best time of year for seeing the Milky Way from the northern hemisphere—and parts of August are the very best.
100 years ago, Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help. If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when ...
Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...