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2w ago

Simulations Suggest Milky Way's Disk Gradually Flipped by More Than 90°

New models propose an ancient head‑on merger could have slowly reoriented the Galaxy and thus explain Gaia's unusually slow stellar halo, reshaping how astronomers model galactic evolution.

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4mo ago

Astronomers Reconstruct NGC 1365’s 12-Billion-Year Past With Extragalactic Archaeology

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4mo ago

Gaia Finds Thousands of Solar Twins, Tying the Sun to a Mass Migration Across the Milky Way

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5mo ago

New SETI Model Finds Nearby Advanced Civilizations Unlikely

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7mo ago

First All-Sky Census of Nearby K Dwarfs Flags 529 Prime Targets for Earth-Like Planet Searches

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7mo ago

Radio Search Finds No Signal From Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS as Hubble Images Twin Jets

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10mo ago

Gaia Space Telescope Discovers Ancient Star Streams Shiva and Shakti, Key to Milky Way's Formation

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2y ago

Unexpected Gamma-Ray Signal Discovered Outside Milky Way

20 ARTICLES

2y ago

Milky Way

Simulations Suggest Milky Way's Disk Gradually Flipped by More Than 90°

Astronomers Reconstruct NGC 1365’s 12-Billion-Year Past With Extragalactic Archaeology

Gaia Finds Thousands of Solar Twins, Tying the Sun to a Mass Migration Across the Milky Way

New SETI Model Finds Nearby Advanced Civilizations Unlikely

First All-Sky Census of Nearby K Dwarfs Flags 529 Prime Targets for Earth-Like Planet Searches

Radio Search Finds No Signal From Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS as Hubble Images Twin Jets

ESA Releases Gaia-Based 3D Map of Local Milky Way Star-Forming Regions

Stargazers Get Prime August Views of M13, the Pleiades and the Hyades

Two Southern Novae Dimming After Brief Naked-Eye Appearance

Hubble Reveals Enhanced Image of Eagle Nebula’s Towering Gas Pillar

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Small Magellanic Cloud Found to Be Tearing Apart Under Gravitational Forces

Astronomers Capture Stunning Image of Dark Wolf Nebula

Citizen Scientists Discover Star Traveling at 1 Million MPH

NASA Astronaut Captures Stunning Northern Lights from Space

Astronomers Use Pulsars to Detect Potential Dark Matter

Perseid Meteor Shower to Illuminate Skies Across the U.S. Until August 24

Gaia Space Telescope Discovers Ancient Star Streams Shiva and Shakti, Key to Milky Way's Formation

Unexpected Gamma-Ray Signal Discovered Outside Milky Way

Webb Space Telescope Reveals Unprecedented Details of Milky Way's Core

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