Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...

A new study shows how Milky Way chemical tracks emerge from shifting star formation and gas supply, reshaping ideas about the ...

A globular cluster near the heart of the Milky Way is gradually dissolving, according to a new study published on arXiv, ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

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While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for stargazers to catch a glimpse of the band of billions of stars comprising our galaxy. Two locations in ...

The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth. Reading time 2 minutes An astronaut recently captured an image of Earth from the ...

Astronomers have just confirmed for the first time the existence of a "rogue planet"—a world drifting in space without being ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...