Researchers have detected a sugar in the interstellar medium for the first time. Sugars are central to life. They help form the structural backbone of DNA and RNA and participate in essential metabolic reactions. They are also thought to have been necessary for the formation of the earliest nucleic acids. Yet researchers studying life’s origins [...]

Scientists have identified an accelerator that produces the highest-energy protons in our galaxy, a finding that could clarify the nature of the fast-moving particles filling the space between stars. Across the Milky Way, charged particles race through space with energies beyond the reach of even the most powerful accelerators built on Earth. Known as cosmic [...]

A head-on collision with another galaxy billions of years ago may have dramatically reoriented the Milky Way’s disk, according to new supercomputer simulations that reveal how violent mergers can leave spiral galaxies looking surprisingly normal today.

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Observations of remote cosmic explosions reveal that the outer spiral arms of the Milky Way might extend farther out than previously thought.

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The Milky Way galaxy's stunning arc is visible on moonless nights. Many of those stars are at vast distances, some over 50,000 light-years away. In Psalm 19 King David reflected on this cosmic splendour, interpreting the night sky as a declaration of God's creation. I explore its significance to the biblical creation worldview.