The careening star blasted through the galactic filament, known as "the Snake," at a zippy 1–2 million miles per hour.

Have you ever had an X-ray taken of your bones? Well, so has the Milky Way. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory regularly images ...

Astronomers have discovered a likely explanation for a fracture in a huge cosmic "bone" in the Milky Way galaxy, using NASA's ...

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

Astronomers, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio telescopes, have discovered a pulsar likely caused a fracture ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and powerful radio telescopes have likely solved a cosmic mystery—what ...

Astronomers are unraveling the mystery behind Ansky, a black hole system emitting powerful, repeating X-ray bursts called ...

The Milky Way has a giant serpent-like structure that is broken in two places. Scientists say a radio signal is peeking from ...

The assailant, seen right at the point of the break, could be a fast-spinning neutron star, known as a pulsar. Scientists ...

F. Yusef-Zadeh et al; Radio: NRF/SARAO/MeerKat; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk The bone appears to have been struck by a fast-moving, rapidly spinning neutron star, or pulsar. Neutron ...

A team of NASA researchers has uncovered a massive fracture in the Milky Way galaxy's structure, caused by a pulsar ...