The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, about 100,000 light-years across, containing roughly 200 billion stars, and our solar system is located about 26,000 light-years from its center. It takes ...

But in reality, everything moves, our Solar System being no exception. As it drifts along the Milky Way, it encounters unseen forces—dense clouds of interstellar gas, remnants of ancient supernovae, ...

The Radcliffe Wave inside a cartoon model of the Milky Way. (Credit: Ralf Konietzka ... and gravitational waves rippling through the galaxy. Now, scientists have uncovered evidence that between ...

Join our Whatsapp channel Chinese and United States astronomers have created the first three-dimensional map of the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky Way, using data from China’s ...

Back in the 19 nineties, astronomers started to see growing evidence that the universe was accelerating. We thought gravity would slow things down so I could throw up *** ball. Gravity is gonna ...

(CNN) — Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would pulse every two hours, like a cosmic heartbeat.

The clouds that comprise this structure are highlighted in red and superimposed on an artist’s illustration of the Milky Way. The location of the Sun is highlighted by the yellow ... the Sun’s journey ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of light from Earth’s southern hemisphere and named after Portuguese explorer ...

Astronomers have uncovered compelling evidence of the closest supermassive black hole outside of our own Milky Way galaxy. Nestled within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of our nearest galactic ...