The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, each following its own evolutionary path through birth, life, and ...

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

What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...

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.

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...

Learn how a newly detected gamma-ray halo in the Milky Way could mark the first direct glimpse of dark matter.

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

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