Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — 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 ...

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Our Milky Way consists of 100 billion stars. Until now, simulations could not include them individually; thanks to AI, this ...

NASA has shaken up the universe once again, this time through the discovery of the fastest object ever spotted, which ...

The Milky Way galaxy, comprised of billions of stars, will be visible in the night sky until the end of May, particularly between the last quarter moon (May 20) and the new moon (May 30). Light ...

Stargazing North Carolinians are in luck this month – one of astronomy’s most dazzling phenomena will be visible soon. During May 2025, the Milky Way, our home galaxy with a disk of stars spanning ...