Milky Way

At 1.2 billion years young, the galaxy ALESS 073.1 should have the chaotic look of a youthful galaxy—a fledging,…

Some 163,000 light-years from the Milky Way is a much smaller, much more ancient galaxy: Tucana II, so named for the…

A new estimate suggests the Milky Way contains more free-floating planets than stars. It’s a big claim, but an…

Despite decades of searching, no one has yet cracked the mystery of dark matter. One hypothesis to explain it relies…

Astronomers have discovered that many of the star-forming regions we see in the sky actually seem to form an…

A team of Polish astronomers has created the most accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way to date, revealing…

Using the ALMA observatory, scientists have detected a previously undocumented band of cool gas wrapped around the…

By combining data from the Hubble and Gaia space telescopes, an international team of astronomers has come up with…

Scientists have discovered a nearby “stellar stream” containing thousands of stars spanning the southern sky. They…

A new analysis of pulsing stars has revealed the Milky Way’s twisted shape.

While inspecting a known globular cluster, a team of astronomers began to notice that some of its stars didn’t seem…

A tiny star located about 1,590 light-years from Earth could be as old as 13.53 billion years, making it one of the…

The center of our galaxy is an extreme place that holds all sorts of mysteries. Among those enigmas are what appear…

The closest galaxy to our own is the majestic Andromeda galaxy, a collection of a trillion stars located a “mere” 2…

This might come as a surprise, but we don’t really know what our own galaxy looks like. We can only see it from our…

“The void” is more than a metaphor for gnawing existential pain. In fact, new research from an international team of…

Using two of the world’s largest configurable telescopes, scientists have created the most detailed map yet of…

Since finding a perfectly dark sky is rare in our electrically-powered world, we at Gizmodo like to highlight the…

An international team of astronomers has discovered a huge expanse of space near the center of the Milky Way that’s…

Our world is getting brighter, as we turn more and more lights on across the planet. But all that light shining from…