Milky way

New work reveals the likely original locations of Saturn and Jupiter

Where were Jupiter and Saturn born?

Smallest Earth-sized free-floating planet found in milky way

An Earth-sized rogue planet discovered in the Milky Way.

Our Milky Way galaxy is surrounded by a clumpy halo of hot gases

The Milky Way galaxy is in the recycling business.

Astronomers determined the spin of the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way

The Spin of the Supermassive Black Hole in our Galaxy.

Milky Way has been accreting star clusters over its lifetime

Fast-rotating stars at the centre of the Milky Way could have migrated from the outskirts of the galaxy.

Our solar system has a second alignment plane

This has important implications for models of how comets originally formed in the solar system.

First direct distance measurement to magnetar within our Milky Way Galaxy

A measurement that could help determine if magnetars are the sources mysterious Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs).

18 very metal-poor stars detected in the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy

One of the stars from the sample has an extremely low metallicity, slightly below -3.0.

Hubble mapped envelope of gas around Andromeda galaxy

This tenuous, nearly invisible halo of diffuse plasma extends 1.3 million light-years from the galaxy.

Scientists observed the fastest moving star ever

It is travelling approximately 8% of the speed of light.

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