"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation emanating from the ...

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

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

Created using data from two extensive surveys, this spectacular radio image of the galactic plane of the Milky Way provides ...

Researchers have developed the first Milky Way simulation capable of tracking over 100 billion stars for ten thousand years.

Astronomers have captured the most detailed radio-colour map of the Milky Way, revealing tens of thousands of sources and ...

A binary star system, designated D9, has been discovered orbiting the Milky Way's supermassive black hole (SMBH), providing the first compelling evidence that previously enigmatic G objects are ...

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

Their AI learned how gas behaves after supernovae, removing one of the biggest computational bottlenecks in galactic ...

If you've never gotten a good luck at the Milky Way galaxy, you'll have that opportunity on Fourth of July weekend. "The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," ...

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers has shown how to use the chemical composition of stars in clusters to shed light on the formation of our Milky Way. This ...