A stronomers have found more evidence that there is a massive ripple traveling through the Milky Way. They have found evidence that stars at the edge of the galactic disk are moving like people doing ...

There are designated areas in the U.S. where the night sky is so crystal clear that you can see the Milky Way galaxy stretching across the heavens with nothing more than the naked eye. While city ...

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope reveal that our galaxy also has a giant wave rippling outwards from ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to the dwarf planet Pluto, a finding with ...

Since the 1970s, astronomers have predicted that Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, should be sending out hot wind – they have just caught the first glimpse of ...

Milky Way season in the US is coming to an end, but the iconic band of stars, our galaxy's center, should still be visible for awhile.

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"Even the quietest and seemingly empty regions of the galaxy can harbor extreme processes." Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary celestial system containing a runaway pulsar fleeing the scene ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky. Spectators will have the best luck on cloud-free nights and in locations away from ...