A peculiar cluster of stars swirling around the violent center of the Milky Way could become "immortal" by continuously capturing and destroying dark matter particles in their cores, a new study ...

the Milky Way can give you a general idea of the north-south axis. However, more precise navigational tools, such as Polaris, are more beneficial.Navigating by the stars requires practice and ...

This discovery now allows astronomers to witness the birth of a super star cluster in our neighboring galaxy. The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, is located nearly 160,000 light ...

"It marks an exciting step forward in our understanding of dark matter and the dynamics of the Milky Way." A perplexing "break" in a stream of stars around the Milky Way could be the result of ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now ...

Scientists discovered the star SMSS1605-1443 in 2018. Upon discovery, they determined that it was perhaps one of the Milky Way’s oldest stars based on its chemical composition. However ...

HVSs travel much faster than normal stars, and sometimes, they can exceed the galactic escape velocity. Astronomers estimate that the Milky Way contains about 1,000 HVSs, and new research shows ...

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own Close Advertisement ...

The study measured where and how fast 77 of Andromeda’s compact star clusters—called globular clusters—are moving to work out where they came from. Even when the Milky Way and Andromeda ...

In November the Milky Way arches high across the mid-evening sky from east to west. At its eastern end, winter constellations ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... such as “failed” stars called brown dwarfs and free-floating planets that don ...