I had come to Chattanooga for the annual Outdoor Writers Association of America conference. Nestled between mountainous ...

At the very heart of our galaxy, a giant monster is sleeping. The supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A*, has a mass 4.3 million times larger than the sun and measures around 24 million ...

The 72nd Princess Kay of the Milky Way was crowned on the eve of the opening of the Minnesota State Fair. Malorie Thorson, a 20-year-old student at South Dakota State University (SDSU) from Waverly, ...

August continues to be a great month to check out the skies. This month offers one of the best opportunities to see the Milky Way. The center of our galaxy is teeming with billions of stars that ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky. Spectators will have the best luck on cloud-free nights and in locations away from ...

The 71st Princess Kay of the Milky Way dropped by KARE 11. The crowning will happening at 8 p.m. on the Bandshell of the fairgrounds. Major US brands sound alarm over rising anti-American sentiment ...

A new study puts Ursa Major III, a ghostly satellite of our Milky Way, under the microscope. A ghostly object orbiting the Milky Way has left astronomers questioning its composition: Is it a ...

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Two 19-year-old women from Stearns and Benton counties are finalists for Princess Kay of the Milky Way. Butter sculptures of each finalist will be carved at the fair's Dairy Building. Two 19-year-old ...

The discovery reinforces established theories about space. There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to astronomers. As many as ...

The Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) theory suggests that most galaxies are low-mass dwarf galaxies, many of which orbit larger galaxies like the Milky Way. More broadly, the LCDM represents our best ...

The Milky Way's satellite galaxies are less typical than previously thought. Most Milky Way-like galaxies have star-forming satellite galaxies, unlike our own. The Milky Way's unique satellite galaxy ...