If the pulsar is confirmed, it could enable more precise measurements of the space-time around the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole ...

Researchers from Columbia University and Breakthrough Listen, a scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to map the galaxy’s hidden structures. The image is sharper, deeper, and ...

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy containing 100-400 billion stars. Planet Earth sits along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms. Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times ...

Milky Way All Caramel “brings the brand's gooey caramel into the spotlight,” per an announcement shared with PEOPLE Milky Way Milky Way All Caramel hits stores nationally beginning in January 2026 The ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Head-on (left) and side-view (right) snapshots of a galactic disk of gas. These snapshots of gas distribution after a supernova explosion were generated by the deep learning surrogate model.

Well, it’s confession time: I’ve been lying to you. I’ve said on many occasions in this column that our Milky Way galaxy has a flat disk. But it’s not really flat—not according to any reasonable ...

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