The James Webb Space Telescope is turning the Milky Way inside out, exposing the buried engines that actually drive our galaxy’s star production. By peering through dust, resolving crowded stellar ...
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way has long looked quiet, a dim and seemingly dormant presence ...
"The fact that there is only around a 50-50 chance of a merger was very surprising." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A titanic ...
Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...
It’s been textbook knowledge for over a century that our Milky Way galaxy is doomed to collide with another large spiral galaxy, Andromeda, in the next 5 billion years and merge into one even bigger ...