Milky Way

Volunteers participating in the citizen science project Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 (open to both scientists and amateur astronomers) have helped…

Around 700 million astronomical objects have been carefully cataloged in a new public database called the Dark Energy Survey, created…

Scientists are going to turn the Milky Way into a giant galaxy-sized observatory to observe gravitational waves too large for…

Usually, when astronomers talk about “neighboring galaxy”, they mean the Andromeda Galaxy, which is only 2.5 million light-years distant from…

In the first all-sky map produced by the eROSITA X-ray telescope, one of two instruments aboard Russia’s Spektr-RG orbital observatory,…

The video below gives you an opportunity to see the most precise and accurate 3D map of the Milky Way…

Astronomers have found at least one million new, previously unknown galaxies in the universe. They are calling it the biggest…

Scientists have discovered the remains of a “fossil galaxy” hiding inside the Milky Way. According to experts, this is what…

Have you ever had the chance to watch the Interstellar movie? It’s one of my favourite sci-fi movies, mainly because…

During the clear and especially moonless nights of July, August, and September, a milky-white stripe surrounds the sky and catches…

Just how big is the universe we live in? This answer is something we are unable to obtain, given our…

Galileo Galilei was one of the finest astronomers that walked planet earth. He introduced multiple concepts and theories that helped…

Seeing the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy is an incredible feeling. Recently, I’ve started taking astrophotography pictures and have…

As you are reading this, the Earth is traveling through the solar system, which, in turn, is traveling through the…

Scientists have recently reported discovering what they believe is the most massive black hole ever discovered in the early Universe.…

During a time that humankind’s ancestors were learning to walk upright, use their hands, and create the first primitive tools,…

Which is greater; the number of sand grains on Earth or stars in the sky? This is perhaps one of…

In 2015, a group of scientists looked at the likelihood of alien civilizations developing in certain galaxies. They wanted to…

According to a new scientific study, the Milky Way may be full of alien civilizations, and the may even have…

The first indication of an exoplanet was noted as early as 1917 but was not acknowledged as such until 2016.…

An international team of scientists has created a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way, the largest to date, and the…