Search of 100,000 galaxies for advanced civilizations yields no obvious candidates
Using data from NASA’s WISE orbiting observatory, a team of scientists say they have found no evidence of the mid-infrared…
Dark matter could be the wild card in extinction events
Our planet’s long path around and through the Milky Way means that dark matter could be the ultimate wild card…
Entire star cluster flung from distant galaxy
Astrophysicists have discovered an entire star cluster that has been ejected from the galaxy known as M87 at more than…
Mysterious “hypervelocity stars” observed fleeing the galaxy
Astronomers have discovered dozens of solitary stars that are moving fast enough to escape the gravitational grasp of the Milky…
Earth’s Milky Way neighborhood gets upsized
Earth resides between two major spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy in what was thought to be a smaller…
Andromeda-Milky Way collision visualized
After nearly a century of speculation about the future destiny of Andromeda and our own Milky Way galaxy, scientists at…
Milky Way’s black hole in asteroid feeding frenzy
The X-ray flares that are observed on a daily basis from the giant black hole at the center of the…
Milky Way has “billions” of habitable planets
Working with data from telescopes located around the world, an international team of astronomers have shown that planets around stars…