Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms ...

For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

The sun is located about 26,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy, aka the Milky Way, and its orbit is close to ...

The Milky Way ripples like a vast cosmic wave. Gaia’s precise measurements reveal a colossal motion sweeping through the ...

Looking towards the central region of the Milky Way, there is an unexpected surplus in the most powerful light that exists: ...

It wasn’t all that many years ago that you could go to a major astronomy meeting and hear the latest news about galaxies and supernovas and quasars and the Big Bang — but nothing at all about planets ...

A team of scientists from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Italy, led by astronomer Eloisa Poggio, looked ...

Ursa Major III, previously classified as a dwarf spheroidal galaxy due to its high mass, is proposed to be a compact star cluster located 32,600 light-years from the Milky Way. The research team ...

(CNN) — Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would pulse every two hours, like a cosmic heartbeat. The long ...