Milky Way
Something Huge and Invisible Is Making Nearby Stars Vanish, Scientists Propose
Stars that have gone missing from the Hyades cluster may have been torn away by a dark matter monster with the mass of 10 million Suns.
Scientists Just Found a ‘Restless’ Supermassive Black Hole Wandering in Space
We’ve always thought of supermassive black holes as stationary objects sitting tight while everything swirls around them. Until now.
Scientists Find More Evidence That Galaxies Are Synced Up In a 'Cosmic Web'
The oddly coherent motion of small satellite galaxies is challenging our accepted model of the universe.
Scientists Are Hunting for a Mysteriously Missing Supermassive Black Hole
A distant galaxy should have a back hole that is billions of times more massive than the Sun, but it's nowhere to be found. Where is it?
Milky Way Is Being Slowly 'Pulled' Apart by a Neighbouring Galaxy
The gravitational force is causing our home galaxy to twist and deform.
An Unexplained Repeating Radio Signal Is Coming From Inside Our Galaxy, Scientists Discover
It turns out that the first fast radio burst (FRB) ever found in the Milky Way is not a one-off.
Astronomers Are Hunting for a ‘Hidden’ Halo Orbiting the Milky Way
A speculative “corona' may be responsible for the odd properties of the Magellanic Stream, a river of gas and galaxy guts that stretches across half the night sky.
Scientists Found a Lookalike of Our Own Galaxy Deep in Cosmic Time
12 billion light years from Earth, scientists spotted a galaxy that is the spitting image of a young Milky Way. Its discovery challenges our understanding of the early universe.
Scientists Found an Ancient Graveyard of Anomalous Stars in Our Galaxy's Halo
The Milky Way tore apart a collection of extremely old stars two billion years ago, and scientists have found the grizzly remains.
Scientists Discovered a Gigantic Structure in a Hidden Zone of Space
An international team of scientists has discovered a filament of a fundamental structure known as the cosmic web hiding in the 'Zone of Avoidance,' and it's one of the biggest structures ever seen by humans.
The Fastest-Growing Black Hole Gobbles Up One Sun a Day
New research just found incredible information on the hungriest black hole in the Universe.
How to Take Stunning Pictures of Space at Home
We talked to skywatchers from around the world to find out how they got their most incredible shots and how anyone can do the same—anywhere, on any budget, even during a pandemic.