A small red dwarf star in the Milky Way has drawn attention after astronomers mapped four closely orbiting planets around it.
NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our solar system. For a long time, the Oort cloud's ...
In February, the bright band of the Milky Way appears higher in our pre-dawn sky. Find out where and when to see it.
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Could something even darker than a black hole lurk in the Milky Way’s core?
The object at the Milky Way’s center has long been treated as a settled case: a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* ...
The discovery reinforces established theories about space. There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to astronomers. As many as ...
Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...
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