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The sky is selling: The top spots in Greece for astrotourism

How astrotourism is turning mountain ranges, desert islands and forgotten valleys into destinations of global interest with the unique tool of the night

ESA’s Gaia space telescope detects stellar wave in the Milky Way

A giant wave of stars rippling outward from the center of our galaxy has been detected by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia space telescope

The Milky Way may escape collision with Andromeda, according to new research

An international team of astrophysicists involved in a study estimates that the probability of a collision between the two galaxies is about 50% in the next 10 billion years

Possibly habitable “Super Earth” discovered in our own Milky Way Galaxy

TOI-715 b, which the scientists discovered using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), lies 137 light years from Earth

The Black Hole at the center of the Milky Way is spinning so fast, it’s squishing space-time down like a football

Don't worry. The distortion won't affect us

Rare galaxy with three black holes leads astronomers to the most massive objects in the universe

Using a high-resolution cosmological simulation called ASTRID, the team modeled the evolution of the universe as it appeared about 11 billion years ago

Feel tiny in this gigantic, zoomable galaxy map charting 3 billion stars

Anyone who’s ever looked up at the sky on a clear night, far from any light pollution, has marveled at just how many stars there are

NASA’s Telescope spots a sonic boom bigger than the Milky Way

Here’s what happens when galaxies violently collide

Scientists found a “large-scale structure” lurking behind the Milky Way

It’s tough to see through the Milky Way’s “zone of avoidance,” but these scientists pulled it off

The James Webb Telescope has already made its first scientific discovery

“We’re potentially looking at the most distant starlight ever seen”

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