This discovery doesn’t just shed light on stars—it helps decode the history of the Milky Way and even the potential for life-supporting planets. A new study led by researchers at UNSW Sydney has ...

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Astronomers using ALMA have discovered a new type of long, narrow “slim filaments” in the Milky Way’s central molecular zone, revealing surprising details about shock-induced material circulation near ...

The Local Group, which includes the Milky Way, has a peculiar velocity of about 627 kilometers per second. In the νHDM model, this value fits nicely within the predicted range, due to the way ...

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will collide and explode in 23 billion years. The blast—were we around to ...

Milky Way Crispy Rolls were discontinued in 2022 GETTY Alongside the Milky Way version, shoppers can also find new Twix Crispy Rolls and Bounty Crispy Rolls as permanent additions to the meal deal ...

Drift beneath the stars with this mesmerizing timelapse of the Milky Way, where the night sky comes alive in a cosmic dance of light and motion. Watch as the galaxy stretches across the heavens ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish, pinkish and bluish-white arc across the night sky, but this new super-long exposure image from South Africa's ground-based MeerKAT ...

Find out what's up in your night sky during April 2025 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide. Looking for a telescope for the next night sky event? We recommend the Celestron ...

Astronomy enthusiasts were treated to a glimpse of the Milky Way while gazing from the Dorset coastline, with one lucky photographer capturing the moment the stars rose over Durdle Door.

Though Gaia’s systems are now silent, its scientific impact is just beginning to unfold. Launched in 2013, Gaia set out to map the Milky Way with a level of detail never before achieved. Over the ...