Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...
In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...
Astrophysicists have recently discovered something that has left them completely baffled. Something is causing massive bullet-like holes in the Milky Way's GD-1 stellar stream. This utterly strange ...
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
Hundreds of 'ghost stars' haunt the Milky Way's center. Scientists may finally know why. Yet these strange blue balls are isolated from these star-forming regions. Sitting at respective distances ...
How can you tell the shape of something if you're inside it? In the late 1700s, astronomer Sir William Herschel addressed ...
The “Great Attractor” is a fascinating cosmic phenomenon that has long captivated astronomers. The Milky Way and millions of other galaxies in our local universe are being drawn towards it at ...