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Stargazers accustomed to scanning the Milky Way galaxy may notice something odd overhead this month: barely any milk in that way.

[Credit: NASA] A NASA C-130 Hercules successfully made its first flight to Antarctica on Saturday ... in December to map a portion of the Milky Way and nearby Large Magellanic Cloud.

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...

The Milky Way has a broken "bone"—and it was caused by a collision with a pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star, speeding through it at some 1–2 million miles per hour. This is the diagnosis ...

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 ...

An interest in understanding the role that the Milky Way played in Egyptian culture and religion has led University of ...

The "Three Gorges Antarctic Eye" has officially begun scientific observations of the Milky Way's neutral hydrogen and ammonia molecular spectral lines, providing vital data to help unravel the ...

Japanese astronomers are among an international research team that successfully captured the first image of a black hole at the center of the Milky Way ... Hawaii, Antarctica and three other ...