"The Milky Way's satellite population is a unique combination of small satellites containing only older stars, and its two ...

When the researchers studied the polarization of the broad spectrum of light emitted by the eROSITA bubbles, they found huge, ...

Scientists from the SAGA Survey have studied 101 Milky Way-mass galaxies, revealing that our galaxy may have fewer satellite ...

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If you want to pinpoint your place in the universe, start with your cosmic address. You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky ...

Using the VISTA telescope, the European Southern Observatory put 13 years of work into the map, which consists of 200,000 ...

An international team of astronomers has identified and characterized the oldest disc in our galaxy, the Milky Way, which ...

A group of scientists led by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the ...

New research suggests that the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole formed from a merger with another black hole ...

Rebel Galaxy Astronomers have made a "baffling" discovery while peering into some of the furthest reaches of our universe: ...

A branched molecule, relative of the amino acids, is spotted in Saggitarius. A pulsar at the Milky Way's core lets us track ...

For the past 10 years, Australia's ARC Center of Excellence in All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) has been ...