Astronomers have uncovered evidence that the Milky Way is currently merging with a massive galactic structure hidden within ...

ALIEN-HUNTERS have narrowed down their 21-year-search for extraterrestrial life to 100 “signals of interest”. The mammoth ...

Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

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 ...

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 ...

Universe Today reports on new results from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission that show evidence of planets forming around very young stars. Planets are created inside discs of gas and dust that ...

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 video, we leave the plane of the disk and travel “up” and “down” to explore ...

Benita Albert brings us part two of the two-part series on the career of Bob Benjamin. His career interest in astronomy began soon after graduating from Oak Ridge High School. You will find it ...

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 ...