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Stars’ age measured to uncover Milky Way’s history

A new discovery of stars’ age may help understand how our Milky Way galaxy built itself up over bill...

`Gigantic gamma-rays blasted from Milky Way’s core`

New evidence of ghostly gamma-ray beams suggests that the Milky Way’s central black hole was much mo...

Universe may be teeming with nomad planets

A recent study proposed that the galaxy is packed with nomad planets adrift in space.

Billions of life bearing planets float in the milky way

A few hundred thousand billion free-floating life-bearing earth-sized planets may exist in the space...

VISTA captures image of vast ball of stars

About 160 globular clusters have been spotted encircling our galaxy, the Milky Way, mostly toward it...

Life bearing planets may be in millions

Researchers say a few hundred thousand billion free-floating life-bearing Earth-sized planets may ex...

Scientists watch black hole feast on unlucky star

Scientists have witnessed the rare spectacle of a supermassive black hole devouring a star that had ...

Rogue stars ejected from Milky Way found in intergalactic space

Researchers have identified a group of more than 675 stars on the outskirts of the Milky Way that th...

Mysterious dark matter gets all the more elusive

The most accurate study till date of the motions of stars in the Milky Way has not found any evidenc...

Black holes `eat binary star partners` to grow

There are two ways to grow a supermassive black hole: with gas clouds and with stars.

Scientists image billion stars of Milky Way in detail

More than a billion stars in our galaxy can be seen together in detail for the first time in an imag...

`Tens of billions` of habitable worlds in Milky Way

Astronomers hunting for rocky planets with the right temperature to support life estimate there may ...

Now, a new theory on size of black holes!

Planetary scientists have come up with a new theory on the size of black holes -- claiming some of t...

$Runaway planets zoom at a fraction of light speed$

Runaway planets zoom at a fraction of light speed

Scientists have confirmed the existence of runaway planets, some of which zoom through space at a fe...

Hubble captures detailed picture of Messier 9

Messier 9 is a roughly spherical swarm of stars that lies around 25 000 light-years from Earth.

`Milky way may be teemed with nomad planets`

Thousands of rogue alien planets may be rambling through space in our Milky Way galaxy instead of ...

Pulsars can help detect gravitational waves

Pulsars are perhaps the most extraordinary physics laboratories in the Universe.

Milky Way humming in mysterious haze

European space observatory has discovered previously unknown islands of star formation and a haze of...

Milky Way’s black hole grazing on asteroids

The giant black hole at the centre of the Milky Way may be vaporizing and devouring asteroids.

Map of Milky Way`s magnetic fields charted

An international team of scientists pooled their radio observations into a database to produce the h...

Milky Way ‘seems as white as spring snow’

When seen from another galaxy, milky-way would appear like the shade of fine-grained spring snow.

Astronomers see more planets than stars in galaxy

The more astronomers look for other worlds, the more they find that it is a crowded and crazy cosmos...

Milky Way`s black hole may soon eat up a gas cloud

A newly found object hurtling towards the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is...

UCDs are massive clusters of bright stars

UCDs which are mysterious objects characterized by high stellar population counts, are actually very...

`Doomed gas cloud rushing toward black hole`

Astronomers have spied a giant gas cloud with several times the mass of Earth accelerating towards t...

UV emission of hydrogen detected in Milky Way

Astronomers have detected ultraviolet (UV) emissions of neutral hydrogen in Earth’s own galaxy for t...

Planets hold billion of tonnes of diamonds

Recent findings have revealed that some stars in the Milky Way could be harbouring carbon super eart...

Milky Way still feasting on dwarf galaxies

The Sagittarius dwarf galaxy used to be one of the brightest of the Milky Way satellites.

Hubble telescope spots dwarf galaxies

NASA`s powerful Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a number of young dwarf galaxies brimming with st...

Monster black hole in our galaxy eating worlds

A super massive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way is gradually destroying entire worlds on a...

Milky Way `home to gas snakes`

The space between stars in the Milky Way is filled with continuously swirling and churning gas.

Universe `bound by cosmic thread`

Planetary scientists claim to have discovered that the universe is bound by cosmic thread.

Astronomers find supermassive black holes

Astronomers have discovered a pair of supermassive black holes in a spiral galaxy similar to the Mil...

Scientists create radio Atlas of Milky Way

After almost ten years of work, researchers have drawn up a new radio atlas of the Milky Way.

‘Missing fuel’ for star formation identified

Thanks to massive clouds of ionized gas, the Milky Way will have the fuel to continue forming stars.

Gaia’s camera to snap 3-D shots of Milky Way

In order to detect distant stars up to a million times fainter than the eye can see, Gaia will carry...

Milky Way’s identical twin baffles astronomers

NGC 6744, a galaxy about 30 mn light years away from Earth has an uncanny resemblance to Milky Way.

Milky Way `clone` captured by European astronomers

Astronomers in Europe claim to have captured a striking image of a giant Milky Way "clone".

Milky Way `in mid-life crisis`

Our Milky way will slow down its production of stars over next bn years, say planetary scientists.

Astronomers discover `Orphan planets`

Newfound planets are located at an average approx distance of 10,000 to 20,000 light-yrs from Earth.

Entire night sky captured in 37,440 exposures!

The high resolution, 5000-megapixel image provides a 360-degree view of the Milky Way.

Cosmic census finds crowd of planets in our galaxy

Scientists estimated that there are at least 50 billion planets in the Milky Way.

New stars `spotted` in Milky Way

The new "Aquarius Stream" is named after the constellation of Aquarius in which it resides.

300 sextillion stars in universe!

There are a mind-blowing 300 sextillion of stars, or 3 times as many as previously calculated.

Collision of galaxies ‘formed Andromeda’

Andromeda - the nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way- was born when two smaller galaxies collided.

Milky Way`s smallest black holes `don`t exist`

A new study has revealed that black holes a few times the mass of sun may not exist to begin with.

NASA telescope discovers giant bubbles in Milky Way

The NASA’s Space Telescope has discovered a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way.

Cosmic accelerators discovered in Milky Way

Physicists have discovered evidence of "natural nuclear accelerators" at work in Milky Way galaxy.

Milky Way may contain 100 mn habitable planets

Scientists involved in NASA`s Kepler Mission have reportedly discovered more than 700 new planets.

A galaxy that make new stars 250-times faster than Milky Way

A massive galaxy that is making new stars 250-times faster than the Milky Way has been found over 1...

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