Look up: You can see the Milky Way without a telescope this summer
It’s estimated that almost 80 percent of the people who live in North America have never seen the Milky Way. That might sound like a …
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Scientists uncover the origins of one of the Milky Way’s oldest stars
Scientists discovered the star SMSS1605-1443 in 2018. Upon discovery, they determined that it was perhaps one of the Milky Way’s oldest stars based on its …
Astronomers discovered the Milky Way’s ancient heart
The Milky Way is over 13 billion years old, and in that time, it has apparently had more than one galactic core. At least, that’s …
Scientists found a graveyard of ancient stars hiding in the Milky Way
The Milky Way is not just home to our solar system, it’s also home to a graveyard of ancient stars, a new study says. Researchers …
Astronomers spotted a bubble of gas zipping around our Galaxy’s black hole
Astronomers have discovered a bubble of gas orbiting our galaxy’s black hole. Earlier this year, astronomers brought us our first image of Sagittarius A (or …
Look at these stunning amateur Milky Way photos shot on iPhone 14 Pro Max
If there’s one area where Apple consistently struggles to blow away the competition, it’s the photography. Apple’s homegrown processors might be incredibly powerful and its …
The building blocks of life were discovered floating at the center of the Milky Way
Scientists have spotted the building blocks of RNA at the center of the Milky Way. They published their findings in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space …
Our galaxy’s supermassive black hole has sprung a leak
The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy may not be sleeping, after all. Previously, scientists believed that the supermassive black hole at …
The center of the Milky Way looks like a work of art
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has delivered so many incredible images of objects and structures in space that it’s easy to forget that NASA has a …
A ‘fossil galaxy’ was hiding in plain sight within the Milky Way
Scientists have discovered the remains of an ancient “fossil galaxy” hiding inside of our own Milky Way. The galaxy is what’s left of a very …
A repeating signal has been detected within our own galaxy
A blast of radio energy called a fast radio burst has been detected repeating within our own galaxy. FRBs are believed to be caused by …
Something strange is generating a ton of radiation from our galaxy’s core
Scientists are trying to narrow down the possible sources of gamma radiation coming from the center of the Milky Way. The latest research shoots down …
Astronomers just spotted ancient stars lurking at the edges of our galaxy
Astronomers have discovered some truly ancient stars hanging around the edges of the Milky Way galaxy. The scientists believe the stars are all that remains …
What’s the deal with aliens?
What are the actual odds that we’ll discover intelligent alien life in our galaxy? Not good, unfortunately. The size of the Milky Way means it’s …
Study says Milky Way may host six billion Earth-like worlds
Scientists using data from the Kepler Space Telescope estimate that there are roughly 6 billion Earth-like worlds in the Milky Way galaxy. The researchers suggest …
Our galaxy is warping and astronomers have no idea why
From our perch here on Earth, it’s impossible for most of us to notice changes happening in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Astronomers, on …
Surprising discovery suggests the Milky Way has more than one black hole
Studying a galaxy from the inside can be a tricky thing, but astronomers have still managed to learn a great deal about our own Milky …
Our galaxy spat out a star so fast that it’s never coming back
When you look up at the night sky you see a lot of stars that, in relation to our own planet, haven’t moved a whole …
The Milky Way is a thief
We often think of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, as being a self-contained collection of stars, planets, gas and dust. Sure, it’s going to …
Astronomers now believe our galaxy once swallowed a smaller galaxy
For astronomers, discovering new worlds, stars, and even entire galaxies is really only half the battle. Once discovered, explaining how new features of space formed, …
The European Space Agency just updated its massive galaxy map
Back in early 2018, the European Space Agency released the second phase of Milky Way mapping data collected by the agency’s Gaia satellite. With a …
Astronomers discover massive ring of gas circling our black hole
The center of the Milky Way galaxy is somewhere you wouldn’t want to be. We have it pretty easy here on Earth, orbiting our star …
Why didn’t scientists photograph the black hole at the center of the Milky Way?
After years of work and a whole lot of hype, researchers working with the Event Horizon Telescope project finally unveiled the very first image ever …
Just guess how much the Milky Way weighs
Judging the size of something is often best done when comparing it to other things, but that line of thinking tends to break down when …
The Milky Way is on an unstoppable collision course with a neighboring galaxy
Our Solar System has remained largely unchanged for billions of years, and it’s likely to remain that way for a long time to come, but …
One of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies started leaking into another
As chaotic as life is here on Earth, it’s not often that we have time to look up at the night sky and ponder the …
Astronomers spot the youngest known pulsar ever, and boy is it pretty
Many of the objects NASA and other scientific bodies choose to study in space are incredibly old, but that’s not the case with Kes 75. …
