Sun May Have Escaped Milky Way’s Crowded Core Billions of Years Ago
Using a vast catalog of Sun-like stars built by ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have found strong evidence that…
Our Sun Was Born in a Hellish Part of the Milky Way. New Research Explains How It Escaped
The Sun has been a powerful source of energy fueling the solar system for billions of years, but…
The Sun Was Formed 10,000 Light-Years Closer to the Milky Way Center. It Escaped in a Massive Migration of Thousands of Solar Twins
A mass migration of stellar twins. Stars similar to our Sun form a mass migration from the center…
VLT Discovers Third Gas Cloud near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
The newly-identified gas cloud, dubbed G2t, follows nearly the same orbit as two known clouds, suggesting they were…
The Milky Way’s center is hiding exotic chemistry, and ALMA just revealed it
Astronomers have just unveiled a breathtaking new view of the very center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.…
Scientists turn to 200,000 Milky Way stars to track the Universe’s age
Astronomers in Italy and Germany have turned to some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way to…
Stars vanish from night sky as light pollution from cities, towns grows
Loading… We are losing the stars. Not all at once, but quietly, one streetlight, one neon sign, one…
New photo of the Milky Way ‘window to understand how stars are formed’
By Andreas Rogal & Euronews with AP Published on 25/02/2026 – 20:31 GMT+1 While looking like purple and pink clouds caught in a…
A pulsar rotating 122 times per second could be present at the heart of the Milky Way
ⓘ NidhiYashwanth – Pixabay An artist’s illustration showing a pulsar. After conducting research, astronomers would have discovered a…
Steve Durst – the US citizen space diplomat who reached out to China
Steve Durst, a US space entrepreneur who spent decades building rare bridges with China’s space sector despite restrictions…
The Milky Way’s core may be dense dark matter, not a black hole
For decades, scientists have theorized that the Milky Way Galaxy’s supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr…
The Milky Way Will Crash into the Andromeda Galaxy in 4.5 Billion Years and Scientists Think They Finally Know Why
A view of the potential merger between the Milky Way and Andromeda as it may appear in Earth’s…