America's democracy on the brink, Brexit looming, climate crashing... when better to get the first fast radio burst from our own galaxy?
'u ok m8?'
06 Nov 2020
Articles about Milky Way
Worried about the Andromeda galaxy crashing into our Milky Way in four billion years? Too bad, it's quite possibly already happening
Well, halo, halo
28 Aug 2020
Pew, pew, pew! Our galaxy is shooting cold, gaseous 'bullets' of high-speed matter. Boffins are baffled
Mysterious behavior spotted at the Milky Way's center
21 Aug 2020
911, I wanna report a robbery. Hundreds of thousands of stars stolen from a cluster. I think it was the Milky Way
Ancient ball of suns smeared across space by our galaxy two billion years ago
29 Jul 2020
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a charred white dwarf star blasted across our galaxy by an ancient semi-supernova
When two don't become one
14 Jul 2020
Captain, the computer has identified 250 alien stars that infiltrated our galaxy – actual science, not science-fiction
Neural network trained to spot emigrated suns in our Milky Way uncovers mysterious Nyx collective
08 Jul 2020
Looking for a home off-world? Take your pick: Astroboffins estimate there are nearly 6bn Earth-likes in the Milky Way
Getting to them is, however, quite another kettle of fish
17 Jun 2020
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Hydrogen clouds in a far-away star system glowing from a supernova's last gasp
Exploding sun's shock wave may have sparked light from interstellar gas
04 Jun 2020
The mysterious giant blobs of gas around our galaxy's black hole are actually massive merger stars being shredded
Yum, long noodle-like stars
16 Jan 2020
Astroboffins discover Sun is surfing on 9,000-light-year gas wave that acts as Milky Way's stellar nursery
The Radcliffe is totally radical
09 Jan 2020
100 mysterious blinking lights in the night sky could be evidence of alien life... or something weird, say boffins
Either way, we'll take a one-way ticket, please. Now. Thanks. Good
13 Dec 2019
Watch out! Andromeda, the giant spiral galaxy colliding with our own Milky Way, has devoured several galaxies before
Only four billion years to wait to watch the pair duking it out
04 Oct 2019
Astroboffins baffled as black hole at center of Milky Way suddenly a lot hungrier than before
Video 'We've never seen it eat so much in over 20 years!'
13 Sep 2019
Revealed: Milky Way's shocking cannibalistic dark past – it gobbled a whole dwarf eons ago
Uh-oh, the more sizeable opponent Andromeda is next
23 Jul 2019
You've been dying to know. Here's the answer: The Milky Way tips the cosmic scales at '1.5tr' times mass of the Sun
Still looks slim thank to Spanx-like dark matter
08 Mar 2019
It was the best of times, it was the WFIRST of times: How NASA's next exoplanet hunter could find 1,000+ worlds
Boffins predict success rate of telescope's gravitational microlensing tech
27 Feb 2019
How's this for sci-fi: A cosmic river of 4,000 stars dazzles lifeforms as it flows through a galaxy. And that galaxy is the Milky Way
And said lifeforms include us humans on Earth
16 Feb 2019
What's the fate of our Solar System? Boffins peer into giant crystal ball – ah, no, wait, that's our Sun in 10bn years
50-year theory finally confirmed by European space probe
11 Jan 2019
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