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

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.

The solar system is composed of the sun, eight major planets, five dwarf planets, over a hundred moons, and countless comets ...

In an interview with the BBC, professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of ...

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

In a breakthrough study that redefines how we view the heart of our galaxy, astronomers have captured the first-ever direct ...

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

Complex, intelligent life in the galaxy appears vanishingly rare, with the nearest possible civilization perhaps 33,000 light ...

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

So how many stars are there? Given all of the above, astronomers estimate that the Milky Way contains around 100 billion ...

Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...