CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. An international team reported Wednesday that this celestial object — perhaps a star, pair of stars or ...

Astronomers recently discovered a never-before-seen celestial phenomenon hiding in our own cosmic backyard. The mystery object, located just a short 15,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way ...

An artist's impression shows a red dwarf (left) and a white dwarf (center) closely orbiting each other. Astronomers believe the tight orbit causes the stars' magnetic fields to interact, releasing ...

Astronomers have detected mysterious radio waves coming from the center of the Milky Way, but so far they have no idea what's causing it, according to a new study published Tuesday in the ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy.An international team reported Wednesday that this celestial object — perhaps a star, pair of stars or something else entirely ...

Omega Centauri dominates the southern sky as the Milky Way's largest and brightest globular cluster, a dense sphere ...

A structure that resembles a fractured bone called G359.13142- 0.20005, near the centre of our Galaxy. (NASA/CXC/NRF/SARAO/SAO et al. via SWNS) By Dean Murray Astronomers have discovered a likely ...

The search for intelligent life in our galaxy is shifting from abstract speculation to detailed cartography, as researchers ...

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Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would pulse every two hours, like a cosmic heartbeat. The long radio ...