Astrophysicists have recently discovered something that has left them completely baffled. Something is causing massive bullet ...

The closest technological species to us in the Milky Way galaxy could be 33,000 light years away and their civilization would ...

Astronomers are homing in on the source of the "break" in this light-years-long filament near the galaxy's center. Near the center of the Milky Way are enormous filaments of radio energy that ...

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With its moonless sky, the first week of August is one of the best times all year to see the Milky Way and meteor showers without a telescope. Here's how to be in the right place at the right time for ...

Gaia's data has revolutionized our understanding of the Milky Way's history, providing a three-dimensional map of nearly 2 billion objects, revealing a more violent and dynamic past than previously ...

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile. The ...

The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies may not collide. Collision probability depends on the inclusion of nearby galaxies in calculations. Current measurements of galaxy masses have significant ...

The unknown phenomenon repeated several times over the course of a day, an event unlike anything ever witnessed before.

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but smaller than stars — beyond the Milky Way for the first time ever. When you ...