Last Updated: Monday, July 15, 2013, 11:55
Researchers have predicted that an interstellar probe fleet - travelling at 10 percent of speed of light - could survey the entire Milky Way galaxy in 10 million years.
Last Updated: Thursday, July 11, 2013, 11:00
Scientists have observed the birth of a massive star within a dark cloud core about 10,000 light-years from Earth.
Last Updated: Monday, July 8, 2013, 15:20
Our Milky Way smashed into its neighbouring Andromeda galaxy around 10 billion years ago, European astronomers suggest.
Last Updated: Friday, July 5, 2013, 12:41
An international group of astronomers has spotted a distant galaxy hungrily snacking on nearby gas.
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 2, 2013, 11:36
A new study estimates that there may be twice the number of habitable planets than previously thought - thanks to new calculations that include the effect of clouds on alien worlds.
Last Updated: Friday, June 28, 2013, 17:21
ESA`s billion-star surveyor Gaia is ready to depart for its launch site in French Guiana, as it sets to embark on a five-year mission to map the stars with unprecedented precision.
Last Updated: Friday, June 28, 2013, 13:58
Our Milky Way galaxy may be much bigger than previously thought, a new study has found.
Last Updated: Friday, June 28, 2013, 12:05
A new study has revealed that spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way appear to be much larger and more massive than previously believed.
Last Updated: Thursday, June 27, 2013, 18:20
A team of scientists discovered the remains of a supernova that is the most recent, in Earth`s time frame, known to have occurred in the Milky Way in 2008.
Last Updated: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 16:02
The NASA/ ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 61, also known as NGC 4303.
Last Updated: Friday, June 14, 2013, 12:33
Researchers has found evidence that an extrasolar planet may be forming quite far from its star-about twice the distance Pluto is from our Sun.
Last Updated: Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 16:26
The bulk of material between the stars in our Milky Way galaxy-the cool hydrogen gas from which stars spring-is nearly impossible to find.
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