Astronomers mapping interstellar dust in three dimensions have identified a giant spherical void in the Milky Way, roughly ...
For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. Most galaxies are carried outward with the flow ...
Astronomers may finally understand why planets orbiting two suns, the real-world equivalents of the "Star Wars" planet ...
Scientists scanning the heart of the Milky Way have spotted a tantalizing signal: a possible ultra-fast pulsar spinning every 8.19 milliseconds near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at our ...
It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...
New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...
The mass of the Milky Way is one of the most fundamental measurements astronomers can make about our galactic home. However, despite decades of intense effort, even the best available estimates of the ...