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

A team of researchers has confirmed stars ring loud and clear in a "key" that will harmonize well with the science goals and ...

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

These young, hot blue stars are members of the Pleiades open star cluster and resides about 430 light-years away in the ...

The “Seven Sisters” have far more relatives than anyone imagined. Using NASA and ESA space telescopes, astronomers found ...

A long-held dream in astronomy has finally come into reach, and it carries a surprising emotional weight. For years, ...

An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

The Milky Way galaxy is like a gigantic ocean gyre or eddy that spins and wobbles around its center. But our home galaxy also has a colossal wave rippling through it, pulling and pushing an ocean of ...

Earth’s journey through the Milky Way’s dense spiral arms might have churned up the planet’s surface 1. As the Solar System spins around the Milky Way’s centre, it passes through ripples of ...