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 of an ancient system that was torn apart >>
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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 likely that life exists out there, but finding >>
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 lot in a very, very long time. But >>
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 slam straight into the neighboring Andromeda galaxy at >>
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 and staying out of everyone’s way, but deep >>
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 captured of an actual black hole this week. >>
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 infinite frontier, much less keep track of what’s >>
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. Located a mere 19,000 light years from Earth >>
