Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

Depictions on ancient Egyptian coffins and tombs suggest a link between the sky goddess Nut and the Milky Way. A recent study led by an astronomer sheds new light on this connection. Depiction of the ...

This depiction is thought to illustrate the Great Rift, a band of dust and gas that appears to split the Milky Way in two. While this is the clearest known evidence for the ancient Egyptians ...

Astronomers are pulling back the hazy veil on the Milky Way's most common—and arguably most mysterious—type of planet: so-called sub-Neptunes. Not seen among the planets of our solar system ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and it's not alone. There is also likely a forest of binary ...

A recent studypublished on arXiv sheds light on an astonishing discovery at the core of the Milky Way Galaxy. There, a ...

Astronomers have discovered a likely explanation for a fracture in a huge cosmic "bone" in the Milky Way.

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