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

Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...

Now, researchers have discovered a strange energy source at the center of our galaxy that could be linked to a different type ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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