For decades, scientists have suspected the presence of a magnetic field that holds the Milky Way together, but only now has ...

New radio observations of the Milky Way are exposing hidden patterns in its magnetic field. People have scanned the night sky for ages, but some of the Milky Way’s most important features cannot be ...

Scientists are mapping the Milky Way galaxy’s invisible magnetic field, revealing how it holds the galaxy together and ...

The Milky Way has a source that is sending out a rhythm that compact-star theory can hardly explain: two minutes burst every 44 minutes, and in radio waves and in X-rays. The object, ASKAP J1832−0911, ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

Astronomers identified a strange object in the Milky Way that sends out powerful bursts of radio waves and X-rays with steady ...

An artist's impression shows a red dwarf (left) and a white dwarf (center) closely orbiting each other. Astronomers believe the tight orbit causes the stars' magnetic fields to interact, releasing ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. An international team reported Wednesday that this celestial object — perhaps a star, pair of stars or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers recently discovered a never-before-seen celestial phenomenon hiding in our own cosmic backyard. The mystery object, ...

A structure that resembles a fractured bone called G359.13142- 0.20005, near the centre of our Galaxy. (NASA/CXC/NRF/SARAO/SAO et al. via SWNS) By Dean Murray Astronomers have discovered a likely ...

Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would pulse every two hours, like a cosmic heartbeat. The long radio ...

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