A cubic metre of ordinary lunar soil might be one of the best physical records available anywhere for testing whether another ...
The search for intelligent life in our galaxy is shifting from abstract speculation to detailed cartography, as researchers try to sketch where alien societies might arise, thrive and vanish inside ...
The Roman Space Telescope will spend more than a quarter of its time staring at the Milky Way’s bulge, a star-packed central ...
Astronomers are counting down to using the new Roman Space Telescope to scan the Milky Way for alien moons that might be ...
SOME of the brightest stars in the night sky are aliens from another galaxy. These interlopers were probably incorporated into the Milky Way when it ripped their parent galaxy to shreds and ...
Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...
New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star ...
The Milky Way may have undergone a dramatic change in orientation during its history, according to new research that helps explain a long-standing mystery about our galaxy. Using supercomputer ...