Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is seen above the Doll House in this National Park Service photo from Canyonlands National Park. This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky ...

High-velocity clouds are thought to be material that is being pulled into another galaxy, in this case the Milky Way, and many are thought to be made of material left over from another galaxy that ...

Possible dark galaxy discovered near Milky Way Emits no visible light, made of hydrogen and dark matter Detected using Green Bank Telescope and VLA ...

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Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way’s core, ...

Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by gravitational lensing. Weighing seven times the Sun, it bends light from ...

In a video sent to Philstar.com, scientists explain how they were able to shoot cookies into the Milky Way. To mark the event, the cookie label also launched its limited-edition Spaceburst Cream ...

The lone black hole without a companion star is located 5,000 light-years away. A team of scientists have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole that has no star orbiting it in the Milky Way ...

The team concluded that many more stars in the Milky Way galaxy might be home to planets that could support life. There are approximately 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way. Because ...

This project demonstrates a collision avoidance behavior using the E-puck robot in a Webots simulation environment. The robot uses proximity sensors and reactive control to navigate around obstacles ...

Three other people were injured in the wrong-way crash that took place around 9:25 p.m. on eastbound Highway 4 at the Highway 160 split. Wrong-Way Driver Killed in Multi-Vehicle Collision in Antioch ...

One such tale is that of SGR 0501+4516 — a dead star racing across the Milky Way. Astronomers have tracked this bizarre “zombie star” moving at more than 110,000 mph, far faster than they ...