The Milky Way is lighter than we thought
The new results show that the Milky Way, despite its size similar to Tien Nu galaxy, weighs only half of its neighbors.
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The new results show that the Milky Way, despite its size similar to Tien Nu galaxy, weighs only half of its neighbors.
Chinese-Chinese scientists have discovered a super-fast star, moving at a rate of 1.6 million km / h, located near the center of the Milky Way.
With a 360-degree portrait project, zoomed into the Milky Way, American experts have provided a whole new perspective on the structure and content of this spiral star sy…
A group of Australian astronomers said that the shape of the galaxy depends on whether it turns fast or slow.
On Feb. 20, researchers working at NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory announced they had taken a picture of the longest stream of particle jets ever discovered in the Milk…
Telescope in Antarctica has just announced a new discovery, showing a giant gas cloud containing star embryos in the pictorial phase.
American students find a group of stars that move so quickly that they can escape the Milky Way in the future.
Gaia, the satellite that surveyed one billion European stars, began the Milky Way's most accurate mission to date map.
European astronomers have found new evidence that the Milky Way expands inward from the inside out.
The study of giant stars has confirmed that the Milky Way has up to 4 spiral arms, ending the long-held argument that our galaxy has only two branches.
Astrophysicists argue that a giant black hole exists in the middle of the Milky Way. It is said to be 4 million times larger than our Sun.
Recently, scientists have discovered a number of strange planets, revolving around host stars with amazing speed.
Astronomers from the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) used Hubble space glasses to look back at the time when the Milky Way was formed.
The European Space Agency (ESA) said it will postpone the mission to launch a galaxy mapping spacecraft due to a technical issue involving components on board, redOrbit…
Using the Hubble and Chandra X-ray telescopes, American astronomers have discovered a crowded and cramped galaxy with a 'population' density far beyond our Milky Way gal…