Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken a detailed look at the supermassive black hole at the heart of ...
New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...
Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.
The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now ...
The study measured where and how fast 77 of Andromeda’s compact star clusters—called globular clusters—are moving to work out where they came from. Even when the Milky Way and Andromeda ...
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Summer is the best time of year for seeing the Milky Way from the northern hemisphere—and parts of August are the very best.