Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

All of the people and mountains and planets and stars that you see around you only make up 15% of the universe's mass. The ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...

Astronomers have directly observed a free-floating planet, comparable in mass to Earth, roaming the Milky Way. Discovered via ...

Gaia data reveals signs of planets forming around young stars by measuring stellar motion, identifying planetary, brown dwarf, and stellar companions in early star systems ...

Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...

The “Seven Sisters” of the Pleiades are part of a much larger complex that can help reveal our galaxy’s deep history ...

The Milky Way appears to have a vast ripple spreading out across at least a quarter of its disc. If confirmed, the structure might be a relic from a brush with another galaxy, but not all astronomers ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia space telescope has revealed that our Milky Way galaxy has a giant wave rippling outwards from its centre. This image shows the Mikly Way edge-on. In the red ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

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 ...

If you've never gotten a good luck at the Milky Way galaxy, you'll have that opportunity on Fourth of July weekend. "The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," ...