A recent studypublished on arXiv sheds light on an astonishing discovery at the core of the Milky Way Galaxy. There, a ...

ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and it's not alone. There is also likely a forest of binary ...

Researchers suggest powerful bursts from magnetars—collapsed stars with strong magnetic fields—may have contributed up to 10 ...

May 1, 2025 — The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has spotted an unusual family of stars all strangely eager to leave home -- a family we couldn't have discovered without the star-surveying ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a solitary black hole in the Milky Way. The unprecedented find was made possible through gravitational lensing ...

and it presents the reader with an excellent account of the methods used to explore the Milky Way and to fathom some of its secrets. Here we have descriptions of the means by which astronomers ...

The Church frontman Steve Kilbey had no idea he was sitting on an Australian classic when the band played Under the Milky Way for record executives for the first time.

Scientists believe it formed from a collapsed white dwarf ... objects in space after the black holes. The zombie star is one of the only 30 magnetars in the Milky Way galaxy and was discovered ...

Zhúlóng, a galaxy eerily similar to the Milky Way, has been discovered in the early universe, just 1 billion years post-Big Bang. Its mature structure defies standard galaxy formation theories.