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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The University of Florida has just released new research demonstrating that one-third of planets in the Milky Way could be hosting some form of life.Sarah…

A new study has offered significant insights into a host of astrophysical subject areas, as it reveals the true shape of the diffuse cloud of stars surrounding the disk of our galaxy. This cloud of stars, known as a stellar halo, was…

A Milky-Way-like galaxy simulated by the supercomputer ATERUI II. Stars are clustered in a bar shape near the center of the galaxy. Credit: Junichi Baba, Hirotaka…

One of the biggest questions facing astronomers today concerns star formation and its role in the evolution of galaxies. In particular, astronomers are curious whether the process began in the central regions of galaxies, where stars…

For centuries, sailors have told tales of nights when, for a few surreal hours or more, their ships would come across seas that glow the color of milk. The eerie phenomenon appeared “like a plain covered with snow,” reported the captain…

There’s a population of stars in the heart of our galaxy whipping around Sagittarius A* (the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole). Astronomers just found the closest, fastest one (so far). It’s called S4716 and it orbits Sag A*…

The thing with black holes is they’re hard to see. Typically we can only detect their presence when we can detect their gravitational pull. And if there are rogue black holes simply traveling throughout the galaxy and not tied to…

Gaia releases most detailed maps of the Milky Way ever taken – Physics World Skip to main content…

A treasure trove of data is set to answer some big questions about our galaxy. The data, compiled by the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, contains an unprecedented amount of information about more than 1 billion of the brightest…

Astronomers have uncovered a star, called HD 222925, that has the widest range of elements yet observed in a star beyond our own Sun. They have identified 65 elements in the star, including 42 from the bottom of the periodic table. A…