Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time.

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

Created using data from two extensive surveys, this spectacular radio image of the galactic plane of the Milky Way provides valuable insights into the birth and death of stars.

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

New research suggests that dark matter may be the key to uncovering the mysteries of the Milky Way. The scientific team led ...

First-light images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have revealed a 163,000-light-year stream of stars emanating from the ...

Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

The current rate of star formation at the Galactic Center appears to be lower than in the rest of the Galaxy. A new study led ...

The galaxy, known as Y1, existed just 800 million years after the Big Bang and is forming stars 180 times faster than the ...

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 ...

The mass of the Milky Way is one of the most fundamental measurements astronomers can make about our galactic home. However, despite decades of intense effort, even the best available estimates of the ...