The inner Oort cloud, between 1,000 and 10,000 AU from the sun, displays a spiral formation with arms that extend 15,000 AU.
Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it’s so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful tools is something called 21cm radiation. Hydrogen, the most abundant ...
A star racing through the Milky Way may have a planet in tow, setting a new speed record for exoplanet systems. Using ...
From star births to deaths and a party in a black hole, here are some of the reports we’ve been getting back from the ...
A supermassive black hole, six lakh times the mass of the Sun, is moving towards the Milky Way from the Large Magellanic ...
The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...
NASA scientists have detected a star and trailing exoplanet that may be sailing through the Milky Way with unprecedented ...
Scientists have discovered a potentially record-breaking fast planetary system, with a star and possible exoplanet moving at ...
In the Milky Way's central bulge, about 24,000 light-years from Earth, a peculiar pair of objects appears to be hurtling ...
The Large Magellanic Cloud is gradually moving toward the Milky Way and scientists estimate that the two galaxies might ...
Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of ...
Astronomers detect signs of a massive, invisible black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which may collide with the Milky ...