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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

Although our telescopes have captured some truly stunning images of the Milky Way, astronomers have only a vague understanding of our home galaxy. It took a lot of work even to get that sketch, and it ...

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 ...

All motion is relative. That simple fact makes tracking the motion of distant objects outside our galaxy particularly challenging. For example, there has been a debate among astronomers for decades ...

(CN) — For years, astronomers have believed the Milky Way was on a collision course with our largest galactic neighbor Andromeda — a cosmic event expected to unfold in about 5 billion years. However, ...

Until recently, a large black hole formed from a collapsed star was able to avoid detection from the prying eyes of our powerful telescopes – despite lurking nearby Earth and being 33 times the mass ...

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 ...