The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...
After 11 years in solar orbit, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has completed its mapping of our Milky Way Galaxy to a precision never before achieved. Surviving solar radiation and ...
The protoplanetary disk is actually a Herbig-Haro object dubbed HH 30. Such objects are glowing regions in space that contain ...
New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...
These are known as hypervelocity stars, with some moving faster than the escape velocity of the Milky Way of around 600 ...
The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour (1.93 million kilometers per hour), according to a ...
In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...
In the Milky Way's central bulge, about 24,000 light-years from Earth, a peculiar pair of objects appears to be hurtling ...
NASA said the system is thought to be moving at least 1.2 million miler per hour, nearly twice as fast as our solar system.
A research team may have discovered a star with an exoplanet that is so fast that both will leave the Milky Way.