Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 18:07
Astronomers have discovered a new class of `hypervelocity stars` - solitary stars moving fast enough to escape the gravitational grasp of the Milky Way galaxy.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 18:26
Europe`s billion-star hunting telescope has successfully entered its operational orbit to gather data for the most accurate 3D map yet of our Milky Way galaxy, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 5, 2013, 19:50
Twenty per cent of Sun-like stars in our Milky Way galaxy have Earth-sized planets that could potentially host life, a new study has found.
Last Updated: Friday, November 1, 2013, 12:58
Astronomers have found that doom may be averted for the Smith Cloud, a gigantic streamer of hydrogen gas that is on a collision course with the Milky Way Galaxy, because of a magnetic field deep in the cloud`s interior may protect it during its plunge.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 13:01
An international team of astronomers have discovered that Milky Way galaxy "wobbles."
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 18:07
A new paper describes the observation-based relationships of the structure and supersonic internal motions of molecular clouds where stars form.
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: Sunday, September 1, 2013, 11:30
Cosmic rays are known to reach energies above 100 billion giga-electron volts (1011 GeV).
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: 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: 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: 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.
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