Astrophysicists have always dreamed of running a simulation of the Milky Way that could track every single star—each orbit, flare, and explosion—without cutting corners. Now, a team in Japan has ...

Physicists discovered stars near the edge of the Milky Way travel more slowly than those closer to its center -- a surprise suggesting our galaxy's gravitational core may have less dark matter than ...

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

A long-held dream in astronomy has finally come into reach, and it carries a surprising emotional weight. For years, ...

Galactocentric XY-plane map of the 33 335 stars used for calculating circular velocities, plotted in 0.5 kpc bins. The vectors represent the mean velocity of stars within each bin, color coded by the ...

Editor's note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. (CNN) — Researchers have discovered a ...

Astronomers at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) discovered for the first time that the hot gas in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning in the ...

An high resolution image is available at http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2008/phot-30-08.html Pulsating stars enable a new precise determination of ...

For reasons that remain mysterious, it seems our galaxy is different from the others. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Stars have ...

A study by MIT physicists suggest the Milky Way’s gravitational core may be lighter in mass, and contain less dark matter, than previously thought. By clocking the speed of stars throughout the Milky ...