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A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy could portend a terrifying future for life in the Milky Way. The discovery suggests that our models of galactic evolution could be inaccurate.

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

Measuring ongoing vibrations in the disk of the Milky Way — a kind of galactic seismology, Dr. Brown explained — has also led to evidence of an encounter with a satellite galaxy that orbits ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Space is a big place and there's lots of strange stuff out there, but scientists aren't quite sure where these massive space ...

The outflow is about 625 light-years from Earth in one of the closest star-forming regions of our Milky Way galaxy, according to NASA. A light-year is equivalent to almost 6 trillion miles.

Could our galaxy actually be inside a black hole ... while approximately one-third of them rotated counterclockwise. The Milky Way rotates counterclockwise, putting it in the minority.

An undated image from NASA’s Webb Space Telescope shows an outflow from a nearby still-forming star in infrared light, with a spiral galaxy off in the distance. (NASA via AP) 32,615 people ...