The outer reaches of the Milky Way galaxy are a different place. Stars are much harder to come by, with…
Binary star systems are everywhere. They make up a huge percentage of all known solar systems: from what we can…
The Milky Way has a number of satellite galaxies; nearly 60 of them, depedending on how we define them. One…
Right now, we know of about 4,000 confirmed exoplanets, mostly thanks to the Kepler mission. TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey…
Every once in a while, the Milky Way ejects a star. The evicted star is typically ejected from the chaotic…
Astronomers have known for some time that the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies will collide on some future date.…
Astronomers combing through data from the ESA's Gaia spacecraft have discovered what they're calling a ghost galaxy. The galaxy, named…
Between 300 million and 900 million years ago, our Milky Way galaxy nearly collided with the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. Data…
A new study used data from both Hubble and Gaia in order to obtain the most precise measurements of cosmic…
The stars look static in the sky, but are they moving? How fast, and how do we know? What events…