Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.

Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...

The Milky Way ripples like a vast cosmic wave. Gaia’s precise measurements reveal a colossal motion sweeping through the galaxy’s disc, an echo of something mysterious in our galaxy’s ancient past.

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space ...

So how many stars are there? Given all of the above, astronomers estimate that the Milky Way contains around 100 billion stars, and there are at least 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe.

A team of scientists from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Italy, led by astronomer Eloisa Poggio, looked ...

Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...