Milky Way

A breathtaking photograph of the Milky Way captured from space is grabbing massive attention online after it was shared by NASA astronaut Chris Williams. The image, taken from aboard the International Space Station, shows the bright band…

New York: A team of astronomers using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the most distant barred spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way that has been observed to date. Until now it was believed that barred spiral…

Sydney: An international team of astronomers have for the first time ever discovered unusual signals coming from the direction of the Milky Way's centre. The radio waves fit no currently understood pattern of variable radio source and…

London: Astronomers have observed the composition of the gases in our galaxy and have shown that, contrary to the models established until now, they are not homogeneously mixed. To understand the history and evolution of the Milky Way,…

Washington: Astronomers expect NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to find one lakh planets using two different techniques as it surveys a wide range of stars in the Milky Way. Scheduled for launch in the mid-2020s, Roman will be…

New York: A group of astronomers has for the first time detected a powerful fast radio burst (FRB) coming from a source in our own Galaxy, the Milky Way, which is 30,000 light-years away. On April 27 this year, two space observatories --…

London: Scientists have discovered in the Milky Way an Earth-sized free-floating rogue planet which does not orbit any star. Rogue planets are a bit uncommon as although many of the known exoplanets discovered so far do not resemble…

Washington: Observations made by a small spacecraft called HaloSat have shown that the Milky Way galaxy is surrounded by a clumpy halo of hot gases that is continually being supplied with material ejected by birthing or dying stars. A…

London: There could be 36 active intelligent civilisations in our own galaxy, the Milky Way, but we are unable to communicate to them because the average distance to these civilisations would be 17,000 light-years away, new research has…

New York: While it is not possible to put the entire Milky Way on a scale, that has not deterred astronomers from trying to make measurements of our home galaxy. According to a new "robust" estimate of Milky Way's mass measurement, it is…