If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

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 ...

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 ...