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Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.
Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...
The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.
Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the ...
For centuries, humanity believed that Earth was the center of the universe, a view championed by Aristotle and Ptolemy. But with Galileo's groundbreaking observations in the 1600s, the idea of a ...
An international team of scientists have provided an unprecedented tally of elemental sulfur spread between the stars using ...
There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to ...
"Milky Way season," when the galaxy's bright center becomes easier to see from Earth, typically runs from February to October, according to Milky Way photography website Capture the Atlas.
Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be sitting inside an enormous, mysterious void—a giant cosmic hole making our universe expand faster right here than anywhere else. This unusual idea, ...
For one, scientists observe a "cosmic fossil" called the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The first light that was free to ...
The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...