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 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 ...

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 ...

Florida is home to three listed "dark sky" locations that may offer the best views of the Milky Way's galactic center. The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than ...

The Milky Way won’t last forever. Astronomers say it’s on a collision course with the Andromeda Galaxy, a slow-motion crash that will erase our galaxy’s identity. The universe already knows how it ...

For stargazers and astrophotographers in the northern hemisphere, summer is the best time to observe and photograph our cosmic neighborhood, the Milky Way galaxy. The summer months of June, July and ...

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 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 ...