Astronomers found a fast-moving 'zombie star' in the Milky Way. This magnetar, named SGR 0501+4516, has a strong magnetic field. It travels at 110,000 mph. Discovered in 2008, it's 15,000 light ...

Scientists have confirmed the first known solitary black hole. It’s a rogue, companionless object drifting through our galaxy. Trump just declared May 8 a national holiday. What’s open and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following the spectacular launch of Oreo biscuits into space two weeks ago, Mondelez International has now shared deeper insights into the strategy behind the “Oreo Milky Way Dunk” campaign. In a Q&A ...

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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Current models suggest the Milky Way hosts around 10 billion of these embers, and more than 97 percent of all stars will finish their lives the same way. Aomawa Shields of the University of California ...

Scientists have spotted what appears to be a fully-formed spiral galaxy, similar to our Milky Way, from just 1 billion years after the Big Bang. Named Zhúlóng (meaning “Torch Dragon” in Chinese ...

A galaxy from the early cosmos appears to mirror our Milky Way in shape, size, and structure—something no one expected to see so soon. Ancient Light Reveals a Familiar Shape Astronomers have ...

Among these was the Milky Way, the galaxy which is home to billions of stars including our own Sun and the planet we all live on. This is our galaxy, there may be many like it, but this one is ours.

First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way’s core, appears to be ionised (meaning it is electrically charged because it has lost electrons ...