At first glance, the night sky appears still. But in reality, everything moves, our Solar System being no exception. As it ...

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove ...

New research suggests that powerful star explosions, called supernovae, may have caused at least two mass extinctions in ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

A strange energy source at the center of the Milky Way may be a new type of dark matter. Scientists found that hydrogen gas ...

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

"If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to the Earth, the results would be devastating for life on Earth," said Nick Wright, an astrophysicist at Keele University in the United Kingdom ...

Researchers have revealed the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky Way Galaxy ...

To solve the Milky Way mystery, de Ruiter devised a method ... array that operates at the lowest frequences detectable from Earth. De Ruiter, who developed her method while she was a doctoral ...