Mars Meets Uranus Before Dawn On July 4 In Closest Pairing Until 2053

A conjunction on Saturday, July 4, sees Mars and faint Uranus extremely close together in the pre-dawn sky, offering ...
Science Daily

Galactic mystery: Why massive stars struggle to form in the Milky Way's center

At the heart of our galaxy lies a cosmic puzzle: although the Galactic Center is packed with star-making material, massive stars form there surprisingly slowly. Using NASA's retired SOFIA observatory, ...
CNN

The Milky Way’s black hole is eerily quiet. Scientists have now found evidence of its missing wind

Scientists say they have detected evidence of cosmic-scale wind coming from a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, potentially solving one of the longest-standing mysteries in ...
Phys.org

A cornerstone of Milky Way history may need rewriting with evidence of multiple ancient mergers

Astronomers may have uncovered new details about one of the Milky Way's most important ancient collisions. Using data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and a new clustering ...
The Conversation

The Milky Way was rewired by a cataclysmic collision billions of years ago. Now it is on course for another

Vasily Belokurov is one of three winners of the 2026 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics. The award is for “uncovering the fossil evidence of past mergers proving that the Milky Way galaxy” was built through ...