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'Geminid Symphony' and 'Galactic Gandalf': See the breathtaking views of our home galaxy from the 2026 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contestStunning views of the night sky abound in photographs worldwide submitted to this year's Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest.
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The Milky Way ate a galaxy called Loki, and scientists think they found its bonesAstronomers have identified a group of ancient stars that may be the remnants of a dwarf galaxy named Loki that merged with the Milky Way more than 10 billion years ago.
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'Interstellar messenger' 3I/ATLAS could be nearly as old as the universe itself, James Webb telescope observations revealThe comet formed in a cold and distant part of the early Milky Way up to 12 billion years ago, potentially putting it just under 2 billion years the age of the universe.
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A 'mass migration' of stars from the Milky Way's center could explain why there's life in our solar systemThe Gaia telescope spotted more than 6,000 sunlike stars, all of which appear to have migrated from the galaxy's center more than 4 billion years ago.
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'Rare and enigmatic' structures found at the Milky Way's center in largest-ever map of its kindScientists using the ALMA telescope have created the most-detailed-ever map of the Milky Way's chaotic center. The observations could open a window to the ancient universe as it appeared shortly after the Big Bang.
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Radio signal discovered at the center of our galaxy could put Einstein's relativity to the testScientists hope to probe the nature of general relativity through a possible pulsar found in the center of the Milky Way, near a supermassive black hole.
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James Webb telescope solves mystery of 'forever young' vampire stars from the dawn of timeAstronomers have discovered how "forever young" stars stay blue and bright despite being almost as old as the universe.
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'One of those rare 'wow' moments': Zombie star near Earth has a rainbow shockwave that 'shouldn't be there'A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow shock" as it zooms through the Milky Way. The cosmic zombie is also ripping apart its partner star like a black hole.
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Mysterious, irradiated 'scar' in our galaxy may finally have an explanationAstronomers traced a mysterious 'scar' of ionized gas around the solar system to two stars that had a close flyby with our sun millions of years ago.
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