Rather than being flat as a Frisbee, the Milky Way’s star-studded disk is twisted and warped, according to a new three-dimensional map of our home galaxy. If viewed from the side, the spiral ...

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op ...

Peissker described the new findings as an "amazing" development in mapping out the evolution of the Milky Way. This chart shows ... the centre of our galaxy. It is the first star pair ever found ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

The star, WOH G64, is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, approximately 160,000 light-years away. "This is the first time we actually have a sharp image of a star ...