Our Solar System orbits the galactic center at an estimated 792,000 kilometers per hour, taking 225 million Earth years to ...

The Milky Way has just been reconstructed in unprecedented detail, with artificial intelligence helping astronomers track the ...

Astrophysicists have always dreamed of running a simulation of the Milky Way that could track every single star—each orbit, ...

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

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.

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

The new study reports the detection of a mysterious halo-like glow of gamma rays around the Milky Way, peaking sharply at ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his ...

The Andromeda galaxy helped Edwin Hubble settle a great debate in astronomy. Stocktrek Images via Getty Images A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known ...

It is well known that the Milky Way rotates around a supermassive black hole, but researchers have found that our galaxy undulates up and down as well like a giant galactic merry-go-round. Katia ...