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The Milky Way will be visible without a telescope this summer. Here are the key nights to watch for.Summer is the best time to see the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere without a telescope. The key is to find clear, dark skies on moonless nights.
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Milky Way's black hole 'exhaust vent' discovered in eerie X-ray observationsA gargantuan "exhaust vent" may be channeling hot gas away from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole at millions of miles per hour — and filling up two enormous bubbles that tower over the galaxy.
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'Immortal' stars at the Milky Way's center may have found an endless energy source, study suggestsStrange stars clustered near the Milky Way's center are much younger than theory predicts is possible. New research suggests their youth could actually be eternal — and fueled by annihilating dark matter.
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Baby stars that defy explanation are 'swarming like bees' around Milky Way's supermassive black holeA new analysis of inexplicably young stars orbiting extremely close to the Milky Way's black hole heart reveals that they orbit around the gigantic structure in a surprisingly organized way, similar to swarming insects like bees.
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Something 'kicked' this hypervelocity star racing through the Milky Way at 1.3 million miles per hourA low-mass star has been discovered racing through the Milky Way at over a million miles per hour, a journey that began with either the supernova explosion of a vampire star or an encounter with black holes.
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7 potential 'alien megastructures' spotted in our galaxy are not what they seemScientists recently identified seven stars in the Milky Way that could potentially be gigantic alien structures called Dyson spheres. New research proposes an alternative explanation: Those are just cosmic "hot DOGs" in disguise.
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How many stars in the Milky Way die each year?Stars die at different rates depending on how they kick the bucket.
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Does the Milky Way orbit anything?Do galaxies, including our own Milky Way, orbit anything in the universe?
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Some of the oldest stars in the universe found hiding near the Milky Way's edge — and they may not be aloneAstronomers reanalyzed the chemical composition of three stars in the Milky Way's halo and found that they are between 12 and 13 billion years old. They may have also been stolen from other galaxies.
