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 ...

At least 50 billion planets in our own Milky Way galaxy are ... How typical is the Orion Trapezium cluster? Very typical, there are thousands of such regions in the galaxy, says Portegies Zwart.

like the jumbled-up stars spread across the arms of the Milky Way. "This galaxy has a diverse population of star clusters, and it is remarkable that we can see them separately at such an early age ...

And it looks a lot like our galaxy, the Milky Way. "The extraordinary images—taken with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope—show a galaxy that glitters with 10 distinct star clusters that ...