What’s so special about the centre of our galaxy What the team has been observing for 26 years In May 2018, the star S2 made its closest approach to the galactic centre in 16 years. This star can help ...

See that strip of stars splashed across the night sky? That’s our home galaxy, the Milky Way. You can see it from Earth because we live on its very outskirts, far away from all the fun stuff happening ...

A fresh cosmic rethink is challenging one of astronomy’s most accepted ideas, as scientists revisit what truly lies at the centre of our galaxy. For decades, the Milky Way’s core has been believed to ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that our Sun may have traveled across the Milky Way as part of a massive migration of Sun-like stars billions of years ago. The journey may have carried the solar ...

An ultra-sensitive camera attached to a giant balloon on Earth has captured light from a mysterious source at the centre of the Milky Way 1. For more than 50 years, astronomers have sought to ...

The best time to see the Milky Way's bright center in the Northern Hemisphere is ending soon. "Milky Way season" generally runs from March to September in the United States. Dark skies away from city ...

The new data released by the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has revealed the surprise phenomena of ‘starquakes’—massive ...

The best time to see the Milky Way's bright center in the Northern Hemisphere is ending soon. "Milky Way season" generally runs from March to September in the United States. Arizona is home to many ...

The center of the Milky Way galaxy will be visible in the night sky throughout July, including the Fourth of July weekend. Known as "Milky Way season," the period from March to September is the best ...

At the start of the month, Mars is higher in the sky but is heading rapidly downward and passes to the left of Jupiter on ...