The Latest Breaking News from Milky way

There's big news on the "event" horizon: For the first time tonight, we'll get a good look at the supermassive black hole in the middle of the Milky Way. But how do we know it's there at all?

Astronomers know of about two dozen black widow binaries in the Milky Way.

Researchers arrived at an optimistic scenario in which humans would communicate with aliens in around 2,000 years and a pessimistic scenario where it would take 400,000 years

If a person is lost in the wilderness, they have two options. They can search for civilization, or they could make themselves easy to spot by building a fire or writing HELP in big letters. For scientists interested in the question of whether intelligent aliens exist, the options are much…