The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

The subatomic particles are incredibly numerous. About 1,000 neutrinos from stars other than the sun pass through a thumbnail every second.

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...

Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...

Using the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT), astronomers have observed a nearby galactic globular cluster known as NGC 6569.

By tracking these stars back to where they came from, scientists can map the gravitational field of the Milky Way. This helps ...

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

We study evolution of single subhaloes with their masses of ∼10^9 M_⊙ in a Milky Way-sized host halo for self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models. We perform dark-matter-only N-body simulations of ...

When we look up and see the Milky Way as a pale band in the night sky, we’re only seeing a tiny slice of our galaxy. In this ...

The Milky Way was once a textbook example of how a spiral galaxy should form and evolve. Now a wave of new observations and ...

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

Microsoft did the unthinkable back in October when it revealed that the previous stalwart of Xbox exclusivity would be coming to PlayStation with Halo Campaign Evolved slated for 2026. With it set to ...