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Astronomers find the 'safest place' to live in the Milky Way
Astronomers have searched the entire Milky Way to identify the safest places to live. It turns out, we're in a pretty good spot.
'Gravity portals' could morph dark matter into ordinary matter, astrophysicists propose
Astrophysicists have a wild idea to explain the bizarre abundance of super-high-energy radiation shooting from the center of our galaxy: gravity portals.
NASA finds 'Lost Galaxy' shining out of Virgo's bosom
This hazy spiral galaxy is one of the largest in the Virgo cluster — a collection of more than 2,000 galaxies.
The Milky Way is probably full of dead civilizations
If there are other intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way, they are probably much closer than we are to the galactic center, and fairly young.
This is what a supernova sounds like, according to NASA
NASA's new data sonification project turns the universe's most extreme phenomena into sounds.
Clouds of star-forming gas are being shot 'like bullets' across the galaxy
Two clouds of cold-star forming gas are sailing on the Milky Way's hot nuclear wind, and nobody can explain why.
The sky is full of weird X-shaped galaxies. Here's why.
Researchers figured out why this galaxy looks like an enormous X in invisible radio light.
