Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...
The Milky Way looks serene from our vantage point, a hazy river of light arcing across the night sky. Yet the stars that make ...
The search for intelligent life in our galaxy is shifting from abstract speculation to detailed cartography, as researchers ...
The Milky Way galaxy, comprised of billions of stars, will be visible in the night sky until the end of May, particularly between the last quarter moon (May 20) and the new moon (May 30). Light ...
Two colliding galaxies have been found to be reorganizing their dwarf satellites, potentially solving a major conundrum plaguing the standard model of cosmology. New observations of a pair of ...
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and elsewhere report the discovery of a new brown ...
The trajectories of the Milky Way and Andromeda, as well as those of the LMC and M33, in 50 simulations. Circles indicate the final positions of the Milky Way and Andromeda after 10 billion years, or ...