According to ESA’s reporting on the study, the wave behaves like ripples expanding from a stone dropped into water, though in ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by ...

The dusty backbone of our spiral arm of the Milky Way is waving. We live near the end of a long, thin stream of gas, dust, and stars, which spirals outward from the center of the Milky Way. Our cosmic ...

A research team in Japan has created a groundbreaking Milky Way simulation that follows more than 100 billion stars with a level of detail that was once thought impossible.

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and ...

A research team led by Dr. HUANG Yang from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) pioneered the "motion picture" method for measuring the precession rate of ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Astronomers have uncovered more than 400 pairs of star clusters in our Milky Way—cosmic siblings that were born together or ...

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

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia space telescope has revealed that our Milky Way galaxy has a giant wave rippling outwards from its centre. This image shows the Mikly Way edge-on. In the red ...

An illustration of the predicted merger between the Milky Way and Andromeda. NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger For decades, astronomers have predicted that, ...