The Italian government is investing 70 million euros into upgrades to Grottaglie Airport to allow it to serve as a spaceport for Virgin Galactic. Credit: Aeroporti di Puglia WASHINGTON — Virgin ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will conduct the Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey, observing hundreds of millions of stars and exoplanets in the Milky Way’s center.

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE) (the “Company” or “Virgin Galactic”) and Ente Nazionale per l'Aviazione Civile (“ENAC”), the civil aviation authority of Italy, ...

As scientists attempt to learn more about how galaxies evolve, an open question has been whether collisions with our dwarf galactic neighbors will one day tear apart the disk of the Milky Way. Stelios ...

A view of the center of our galaxy shows the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, where cold dust (magenta) and warmer gas and dust (cyan) surround a cluster of massive stars. The stars generate high-speed ...

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The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic home gives us exclusive insight into its components, but it also hinders our ...

A new study from the University of Tokyo claims that NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected a glow at the centre of the Milky Way - one that closely matches what scientists have long ...

Yale researchers co-authored the study uncovering “ultra-massive” galaxies formed briefly after the Big Bang, the creation of the universe. The discovery was based on observations from the James Webb ...

Study to Evaluate Technical and Regulatory Feasibility of Operating from Italy’s Grottaglie Spaceport The study will evaluate the necessary technical requirements for suborbital spaceflight operations ...