Gaia has charted the cosmos since 2014, creating a vast encyclopedia of the positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond. It is difficult to capture the breadth of ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic anomaly that challenges our understanding of the universe. An international ...

A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy could portend a terrifying future for life in the Milky Way. The discovery suggests that our models of galactic evolution could be inaccurate.

All good things come to an end—even the Milky Way. Our home galaxy’s demise isn’t estimated to occur for at least another 4 or 5 billion years, when astronomers believe it will start ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Astronomers have identified a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the closest known outside the Milky Way. This discovery was made by tracking ...

The black hole at the Milky Way’s heart neither slumbers nor sleeps. Instead, the ring of plasma surrounding it flickers constantly, punctuated by superbright flares, observations show.

A breathtaking timelapse captured the Milky Way in all its glory, shining over Marathon, Florida, on March 3. The footage, filmed by Daniel Eidsmoe, shows the stunning celestial display ...

Astronomers have had a rare glimpse into the heart of the Milky Way thanks to an errant star expelled from the galactic centre. At the middle of our galaxy is a supermassive black hole ...

Gaia’s goal was to create a 3D map of our entire galaxy, and so far it has revealed the structure of the Milky Way in the greatest detail ever obtained. It has uncovered evidence that our galaxy ...

The Milky Way rotates counterclockwise, putting it in the minority. These findings are surprising because if the universe is random, as previously thought, "there should be an approximately equal ...

it offers good views of the Milky Way, constellations, and even meteor showers. Two Yorkshire locations made it into the top five best UK places for astro-tourism. The North York Moors ...

Our sun and the planets that circle it are part of a galaxy called the Milky Way. Its name comes from the Greek galaxias ...