A record-breaking number of stars has been mapped by a new model that speeds up processing time while allowing smaller scale ...

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

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 galaxies colliding is ...

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.

The true scale of the Milky Way Galaxy — and, indeed, the universe as a whole — became dramatically clearer in the 1920s. That’s when a new generation of large telescopes coupled with photography ...

The galaxy, known as Y1, existed just 800 million years after the Big Bang and is forming stars 180 times faster than the ...