The newly developed three-dimensional map shows Earth's galactic neighborhood in a new light & is opening the door to some major discoveries
10 Jan 2020 9:25 PM
Star-quakes recorded by NASA's Kepler space telescope have helped answer the mystery
06 Dec 2019 10:56 AM
Researchers revealed the Milky Way Galaxy to be a a stellar disk comprised of four major spiral arms and a bar-shaped core region.
06 Aug 2019 1:29 PM
Astronomers poring over old x-ray observations have found signs of a dozen black holes in the inner circle of the Milky Way.
05 Apr 2018 1:56 PM
The discovery could revise or even upend theories of how galaxies are formed.
29 Mar 2018 9:46 AM
It's also invisible, because the sun is illuminating the side of the moon that always faces away from Earth.
12 Mar 2018 7:03 PM
Its north pole is dominated by a central cyclone surrounded by eight circumpolar cyclones.
08 Mar 2018 1:44 PM
The galaxy appears 11 times bigger than it really is.
16 Jul 2017 2:06 AM
For the past 15 years, scientists have been eagerly anticipating the data from Gaia.
10 Feb 2017 9:44 AM
Astronomers said they had discovered a void in deep space that helps explain the direction in which we are headed, and our speed.
31 Jan 2017 8:13 AM
Every few thousand years, an unlucky star wanders too close to the black hole whose powerful gravity rips the star apart
12 Jan 2017 9:29 PM