In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

For years, astronomers have been puzzled by the presence of two gigantic, high-energy “bubbles” towering over and beneath the Milky Way’s center, extending 50,000 light-years into space. First ...

Homeworld is the sort of game that gets inside your head and just stays there ... Not just any galaxy, either, but the Milky Way is recreated here to a terrifying scale. It’s populated with ...

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When NASA detects two black holes colliding, the cosmos is in a state of chaos. Black holes lie at the centre of most ...

I began photographing the Milky Way around 2018, but the hobby took off in earnest for me at the onset of the COVID years as I took myself out to remote dark sites to capture images. For many ...

So how well do you know the Milky Way? Let's test your knowledge of our galaxy's size, age, speed and more with the 15 questions below. Remember to log in to put your name on the leaderboard and ...

Astronomers have discovered 'Bullseye,' a record-breaking galaxy with nine rings—six more than any other known galaxy.

NASA investigates a hidden mystery in the Milky Way Deep in the heart of our galaxy, scientists believe there’s a strange, massive structure made up of particles that don’t show up on traditional ...

Matter in intergalactic space is distributed in a vast network of interconnected filamentary structures, collectively ...