Astronomers have performed a multiwavelength study of nine open cluster candidates. As a result, they found that all of them ...
Scientists have used the wobble of the Milky Way and what are known as "cosmic lighthouses" to shine a light on the mystery of dark matter.
The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.
Voyager's Golden Record is a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk, encoded with music, sounds and images from Earth. Its aluminum cover is engraved with instructions, and a unique galactic map.
"The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)—a biggish dwarf galaxy—orbits our own galaxy, and when it passes near the Milky Way, it can pull some of the mass in the galactic disk towards it—leading to ...
A star has been spotted shooting away from the heart of our galaxy at around 500 kilometres per second, giving astronomers ...