The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

Astronomers have discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure, approximately 14 million years ago. This journey ...

Gaia, a mission that has driven substantial progress in our understanding of the Milky Way, came through again. "We find that half of the unbound HVSs discovered by the HVS Survey trace back not ...

The planet is the fourth world to be spotted in data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, which was designed to map a billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy, cataloguing their masses ...

As soon as we start studying a stellar source, we make use of Gaia's results." Even if the satellite was far from being able to observe all the stars in the Milky Way, what it did see changed our ...

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way. During ...

A supermassive black hole, six lakh times the mass of the Sun, is moving towards the Milky Way from the Large Magellanic ...

NASA said the system is thought to be moving at least 1.2 million miler per hour, nearly twice as fast as our solar system.

NASA scientists have detected a star and trailing exoplanet that may be sailing through the Milky Way with unprecedented ...

Fig.1: Artistic representation of the Milky Way. The position of the Solar System is pointed by a white row. Our sun and its ...