Do the building blocks of life exist beyond the Milky Way, and can we identify them? This is what a recent study published in ...

The Milky Way ripples like a vast cosmic wave. Gaia’s precise measurements reveal a colossal motion sweeping through the ...

The images show that this wave of motion emanates from the center of the Milky Way and takes up a large portion — a little less than half — of the galaxy’s entire body, which itself is warped in the ...

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...

For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope reveal that our galaxy also has a giant wave rippling outwards from ...

What can the gamma ray light emitted by the Milky Way Galaxy teach scientists about the existence of dark matter? This is ...

A stronomers from the Australian National University (ANU) have unveiled a ground-breaking discovery of binary stars in the ...

For decades, astronomers have been vying to identify a source for a mysterious gamma-ray excess at the center of the Milky ...

Since the 1970s, Voyager 1 has been making groundbreaking discoveries. But its journey is far from over, and it's still ...

Direction of Object 1 and 2 (solid yellow line). The green squares represent their possible locations based on the kinematic distance estimates (see Section 4.3 and 4.4). The background is an artist's ...