Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time.

The Milky Way has just been reconstructed in unprecedented detail, with artificial intelligence helping astronomers track the ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

A successful breakthrough has been created by an international research team led by Japan’s Riken, and it is the most ...

Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

Researchers have successfully performed the world's first Milky Way simulation that accurately represents more than 100 ...

Created using data from two extensive surveys, this spectacular radio image of the galactic plane of the Milky Way provides valuable insights into the birth and death of stars.

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighbouring regions of the universe, astronomers say. Their theory is a ...

The first official image from the Vera Rubin Observatory has revealed a ghostly river of stars stretching farther than our ...

What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral ...