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

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 ...

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

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

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

All motion is relative. That simple fact makes tracking the motion of distant objects outside our galaxy particularly ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Understanding the Earth’s journey through the Milky Way is tricky, but a new study used neutral hydrogen and zircon crystals to dig up details of ...

Malorie Thorson became the 72nd Princess Kay of the Milky Way on Wednesday, the eve of the 2025 Minnesota State Fair. Thorson, 20, will serve as the official goodwill ambassador for the Minnesota ...

FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. — Malorie Thorson was crowned the 72nd Princess Kay of the Milky Way in an evening ceremony Aug. 20 at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. The 20-year-old college student from ...

The 72nd Princess Kay of the Milky Way was crowned on the eve of the opening of the Minnesota State Fair. Malorie Thorson, a 20-year-old student at South Dakota State University (SDSU) from Waverly, ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky. Spectators will have the best luck on cloud-free nights and in locations away from ...