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

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

Microquasars in our Milky Way galaxy have emerged as the most extreme particle engines, accelerating cosmic rays to ...

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.

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

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

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 ...

Researchers have successfully performed the world's first Milky Way simulation that accurately represents more than 100 ...

People will be able to catch a glimpse of the Milky Way galaxy this weekend The Milky Way will be viewable with the naked eye, but telescopes always help The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc ...

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