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The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...
The first ever map of the Milky Way's "graveyard" reveals the galaxy sometimes ejects the corpses of its deceased stars, leaving them roaming the universe as rogue black holes and neutron stars.
Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...
It's the so-called "Milky Way season" in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about viewing the galaxy ...
"The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," according to the Capture the Atlas ...
By reconstructing stellar orbits using real Milky Way stars with accurately determined parameters, the team quantified the galaxy's mass-weighted chemical abundances and age structure.
Astronomers have used the youngest objects in the Milky Way to build a new map of the galaxy's spiral arms, and the results are far messier than expected.
Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...
In the first map of its kind of the Milky Way, they uncovered a massive "galactic underworld" filled with the remains of what used to be massive suns and are now black holes and neutron stars.
A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...
Astronomers for the first time detected neutrinos that originated within our local galaxy using a new technique.
Astronomers just created a massively detailed Milky Way map with 3.3. billion stars Researchers now have an intricate three-dimensional structural map of billions of objects in our galaxy ...