Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s ...

The Milky Way ripples like a vast cosmic wave. Gaia’s precise measurements reveal a colossal motion sweeping through the ...

A mysterious gamma-ray glow from the Milky Way's core has scientists divided. While pulsars were the leading theory, new ...

The Milky Way galaxy is like a gigantic ocean gyre or eddy that spins and wobbles around its center. But our home galaxy also has a colossal wave rippling through it, pulling and pushing an ocean of ...

A gamma ray glow at our galaxy’s center has puzzled scientists for almost two decades. New computer simulations back the ...

An international team of astronomers has created the first-ever large-scale maps of a mysterious form of matter, known as ...

Astronomers believe there are about 100 billion stars in the Milky Way. But, this number of stars depends on various factors. To figure out how many stars are in the Milky Way, astronomers have to ...

Standing on Earth and gazing out into the night sky, you’d think our Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm. Most nearby ...

The galaxy our planet inhabits is called the Milky Way for the simple reason that, as seen from our world, its impossible-to-count collection of stars looks like a band of milky white light. In all ...

The galaxy's vast spiral arms span approximately 2,60,000 light-years, hosting over a trillion stars orbiting a supermassive ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have captured the most detailed look yet at how galaxies formed just ...

Spiral galaxies like the Milky Way divide their stars between a thin disk and a thick disk. Slicing through the central bulge of our galaxy, the younger and smaller thin disk is thought to contain the ...