Astrophysicists have reconstructed the movement of stars within globular clusters to understand their evolution and origin.

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

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Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger "basin of attraction" than we previously assumed. When you purchase ...

The spiral arms of nearby galaxy Messier 81 is captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This galaxy is easily visible ...

The EHTC image of Sagittarius A*—the black hole at the center of the Milky Way—shows a dark, central region (the black hole's shadow) surrounded by a bright ring of light (called the accretion ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but ...

“Seeing a galaxy with such similarities to our own Milky Way, that is strongly rotation ... such as spiral arms, and they plan to carry out more observations to confirm whether they in fact ...

The Church's Steve Kilbey takes a deep dive into the making of their Starfish single "Under the Milky Way" on The Story ...