A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will collide and explode in 23 billion years. The blast—were we around to ...

Milky Way Crispy Rolls were discontinued in 2022 GETTY Alongside the Milky Way version, shoppers can also find new Twix Crispy Rolls and Bounty Crispy Rolls as permanent additions to the meal deal ...

An image of the Milky Way captured by the MeerKAT radio telescope array puts the James Webb Space Telescope’s image of the Sagittarius C region in context. The MeerKAT image spans 1,000 light ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 light-years from the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

ESA's Gaia star surveying satellite launches European Space Agency starts to unfold atlas of 1 billion stars in 3D Carrying two telescopes, the spacecraft's mission was to map the Milky Way ...

Though Gaia’s systems are now silent, its scientific impact is just beginning to unfold. Launched in 2013, Gaia set out to map the Milky Way with a level of detail never before achieved. Over the ...

A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years ... "None of this is in any way normal," Matthew Green, a professor specializing in cryptography at Johns Hopkins University, wrote on Mastodon.

Right now, about 60 are known to surround the Milky Way, but the expectation is that this new discovery will lead to the identification of more. The team ran computer simulations to study how ...

In that way, the SMC is a unique and very close example of what was happening in the early universe. For more sublime space images, check out our Space Photo of the Week archives . TOPICS ...

In the absolute omnishambles of the Milky Way galactic center, we've just found a new kind of turbulent structure. After puzzlement, then analysis, a team of astronomers led by Kai Yang of Shanghai ...

Gaia has charted the cosmos since 2014, creating a vast encyclopedia of the positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond. It is difficult to capture the breadth of ...