A new view of the Milky Way: Warped and twisted Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is "warped and twisted" and not flat as previously thought, new research shows. Analysis of the brightest stars in the ...

We’re just coming up on August’s “Milky Way” window, arguably the best 10 days of the year for viewing our galaxy. So clear your diary this weekend and get outside to as dark a site as ...

With this definition, the outer boundary of the Milky Way would go out much further than previously understood. In fact, the ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.

That's the Andromeda galaxy, our closest galactic neighbor, and in 4 billion years, it will collide with the Milky Way, throwing our solar system away from our own galactic core and reshaping the ...

By reconstructing stellar orbits using real Milky Way stars with accurately determined parameters, the team quantified the galaxy's mass-weighted chemical abundances and age structure. This ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...

The galaxy is estimated to have formed 100-400 million years before its evolutionary stage that was observed by Webb, the most capable space telescope ever deployed. "The Milky Way began forming ...

Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Geoff Bennett and Miles O'Brien discussed why scientists are ...

This study opens important questions in cosmology, particularly on the amount of dark matter contained in our galaxy. The total mass of the Milky Way is estimated to be only two hundred billion ...

New images show a galaxy forming that is similar to what our Milky Way’s mass might have been at the same stage of development. Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed ...

A cataclysmic energy flare ripped through our galaxy, the Milky Way, about 3.5 million years ago, a team of astronomers say. The so-called Seyfert flare started near the supermassive black hole in ...