In February 2024, scientists on Earth detected a powerful radio blast from outer space. Seeking to discover where it had come ...

That’s almost half the distance to Andromeda. This illustration shows the Milky Way galaxy's inner and outer halos. A halo is a spherical cloud of ... [+] stars surrounding a galaxy. Astronomers ...

US and Canada-based scientists revealed in a recent study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters that up to 18% of ...

Thanks to technology, some of the most powerful telescopes in the world can capture images of galaxies and worlds light-years ...

"The internal structure and history of the Milky Way is still far from being understood, in part because it is extremely difficult to measure distances to stars at the outer regions of our galaxy ...