From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

“This runaway magnetar is the likeliest candidate in our Milky Way galaxy for a magnetar that was not born in a supernova explosion as initially predicted. It is so strange it might even offer ...

NASA's Chandra Observatory recently captured an X-ray image that helped identify a dramatic break in one of the galaxy's ...

Stargazers accustomed to scanning the Milky Way galaxy may notice something odd overhead this month: barely any milk in that way.

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way ...

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests. Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky ...

A recent studypublished on arXiv sheds light on an astonishing discovery at the core of the Milky Way Galaxy. There, a ...

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...