Last Updated: Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 13:53
European Space Agency`s billion-star surveyor Gaia, which will map the stars with unprecedented precision, is going to be launched from Europe`s spaceport in Kourou on November 20.
Last Updated: Monday, October 21, 2013, 19:36
The powerful Gaia space telescope designed to create a 3D map of stars in the Milky Way will also detect killer asteroids on a potentially fatal collision course with our planet when it is launched next month.
Last Updated: Friday, September 27, 2013, 15:56
Sony Pictures Television and Dutch broadcaster Nederland 1 have announced a new series called ` Milky Way Mission` that will send celebs to space.
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 11, 2013, 14:52
Astronomers believe that they have found the answers to a 20-year debate over how dark matter is distributed in small galaxies.
Last Updated: Sunday, September 1, 2013, 11:30
Cosmic rays are known to reach energies above 100 billion giga-electron volts (1011 GeV).
Last Updated: Friday, August 30, 2013, 19:42
Astronomers using NASA`s Chandra X-ray Observatory have made a major breakthrough in explaining why material around the giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy is extraordinarily faint in X-rays.
Last Updated: Wednesday, August 21, 2013, 15:58
Scientists have found that planets with no parent star can be born freely, outside of an existing solar system - and there are 200 billion of them in our galaxy.
Last Updated: Friday, August 16, 2013, 00:04
We keep hearing about these strange and mysterious objects in space called black holes, but have you ever thought what they actually are? Do they exist in reality or are they just fiction?
Last Updated: Thursday, August 15, 2013, 12:58
Milky Way`s dark matter mass suggests that the galaxy weighs just 25 - 33 percent of the amount that was previously estimated, according to a study.
Last Updated: Friday, August 9, 2013, 10:04
Astronomers have unraveled a 40-year mystery on the origin of the Magellanic Stream, which is a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around our Milky Way galaxy.
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 31, 2013, 18:41
Astronomers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) have released a new online public data set featuring 60,000 stars, which could us understand how our Milky Way Galaxy formed.
Last Updated: Thursday, July 25, 2013, 20:31
Powered by massive black holes at the center of most known galaxies, quasars can emit enormous amounts of energy, up to a thousand times the total output of the hundreds of billions of stars in our entire Milky Way.
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