Astrophysicist Thomas Bensby is an observational astronomer of stars and the director of graduate studies at Lund University’s department of physics. Thomas uses spectroscopy, a technique used to ...

A mysterious, high-energy glow from gamma-rays in the Milky Way's center is reigniting the debate: dark matter or a hidden ...

Scientists from Japan's RIKEN research centre have created the most detailed simulation of the Milky Way ever made.

A newly revealed image from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has exposed a 163,000-light-year-long stream of stars trailing the ...

Silverman, Leah. "Astronomers Just Created The Most Detailed 3D-Map Of Our Galaxy Yet." AllThatsInteresting.com, November 14, ...

Astronomers have for the first time detected a coronal mass ejection from another star, shedding light on worlds orbiting red ...

Alligator Alcatraz is causing light pollution in one of the first designated "dark skies" in the eastern United States.

An ancient Skiri Pawnee star map on elk skin reopens the debate about its true function and challenges Western interpretations.

The Milky Way galaxy is like a gigantic ocean gyre or eddy that spins and wobbles around its center. But our home galaxy also has a colossal wave rippling through it, pulling and pushing an ocean of ...

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from ESA's Gaia space telescope reveal that our galaxy also has a giant wave rippling outwards from its centre. (Nanowerk ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia space telescope has revealed that our Milky Way galaxy has a giant wave rippling outwards from its centre. The unexpected galactic ripple is illustrated in this ...