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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. A vast new radio telescope mosaic of the ...

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

Get ready, stargazers: The Milky Way could be coming to a sky near you. Our galaxy is positively teeming with billions of stars that become bright and vibrant in the cosmos at certain times of the ...

Inside-out growth and stellar migration in the Milky Way: Inside the star-forming disc (within ~12 kpc), abundant cold gas fuels continuous star formation, producing young stars. Beyond this break ...

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 ...