For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. [Gaia spacecraft: Mapping the ...

New research from Johns Hopkins University and an international team of scientists suggests that two competing theories for ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

Scientists think they have finally found evidence for the existence of a cosmic object that has only existed in theory. Dark ...

Standing on Earth and gazing out into the night sky, you’d think our Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm. Most nearby ...

A mysterious and radiant glow is emanating from the center of our galaxy, which has become a centre of attraction for all ...

PoET and ESPRESSO telescopes are new tools that will eliminate stellar noise and detect Earth-like planets around Sun-like ...

Scientists say breakthrough could shorten the time needed to map the Milky Way from millennia to less than a decade.

Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter, thought to make up more than one-quarter of the ...

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The galaxy’s vast spiral arms span approximately 2,60,000 light-years, hosting over a trillion stars orbiting a supermassive ...