New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of ...

It seemed that these redshifted galaxies were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble’s results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was moving away from Earth. Hubble got ...

The Milky Way galaxy is packed with hydrogen atoms, and these atoms are constantly emitting 21cm radiation. The best part is that this radiation can travel long distances through the interstellar ...

So how well do you know the Milky Way? Let's test your knowledge of our galaxy's size, age, speed and more with the 15 questions below. Remember to log in to put your name on the leaderboard and ...

The heart of our Milky Way galaxy is much more active than most people would realize. In fact, astronomers discovered two gigantic “bubbles” extending above and below the galactic center, roughly ...

In fact, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy looks more like a fireworks display. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured the most detailed view into the Milky Way's ...

According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent observations could overturn this long-held assumption ...

The black hole at the heart of our galaxy is a real party animal ... Space Telescope (JWST), scientists discovered that the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr ...

In early 1920s astronomy, most researchers believed our Milky Way was the entire universe. They assumed those faint spiral patches in the sky were just cloudy formations within our own galaxy. Little ...

Space scientists say the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having "a party." A team of astrophysicists has gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the “void ...

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