Milky Way

An astrophysicist with the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth in the UK, has shed light on how the ancient Egyptians viewed our galaxy - the Milky Way - thousands of years ago. A new study...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) surprisingly detected a huge galaxy in the early universe. This discovery challenges what scientists thought they knew about how the universe works. The galaxy is known as ZF-UDS-7329, and it has more stars...

A newly-discovered black hole, claimed to be the oldest ever found, is eating up material from an ancient galaxy at an unprecedented rate. Researchers, led by an academic from the University of Cambridge, claim to have discovered a black hole...

In a recent study, researchers examined the positioning of ceremonial structures, believed to have been built between 2400 and 1440 BCE, at El Paraiso, Peru. This site predates the Incan Empire by about three thousand years. The ancient people of...

Aliens haven't contacted Earth because there is no sign of intelligence on our planet, a recent paper has concluded. Earth is too primitive to be of any interest to advanced extraterrestrial species; thus, aliens' search for intelligent life will not...

Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets in our Galaxy, the Milky Way, which is untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find, announced on Nov. 29, can help explain how...

US company Fifth Season, a global leader in TV distribution, has acquired the international rights to the upcoming Greek TV show Milky Way, written and directed by Greek filmmaker Vasilis Kekatos, who won the Short Film Palme d’Or in...

New observations from South Africa's MeerKAT telescope have unveiled a new discovery of numerous long strands of gas, stretching for 5 to 10 light-years, reaching out from the central black hole in our galaxy. The Space explains these strands or...

New research published in Nature Astronomy on Tuesday suggests that scientists have found a way to detect the formation of planets. Researchers used infrared imaging from the James Web Space Telescope (JWST) to detect thermal radiation emitted by warm dust...

More than 200 RR Lyrae stars—distant variable stars—have been found by astronomers in the Milky Way's stellar halo. Over a million light-years separate us from the furthest of these stars. This is roughly half the distance to our nearest...