For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

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

If humans survive, they may become a galaxy-spanning Type 3 civilization, with colonists evolving into distinct species ...

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 ...

Earth’s journey through the Milky Way’s dense spiral arms might have churned up the planet’s surface 1. As the Solar System spins around the Milky Way’s centre, it passes through ripples of ...

The Milky Way is a spectacular sight in the summer skies but why does it look so much more brilliant than it does in the winter? For stargazers and astrophotographers in the northern hemisphere, ...

ST. PAUL — A Wright County woman was named Princess Kay of the Milky Way at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds on Wednesday, Aug. 20. Malorie Thorson, a 20-year-old college student from Waverly, ...

Malorie Thorson became the 72nd Princess Kay of the Milky Way on Wednesday, the eve of the 2025 Minnesota State Fair. Thorson, 20, will serve as the official goodwill ambassador for the Minnesota ...

FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. — Malorie Thorson was crowned the 72nd Princess Kay of the Milky Way in an evening ceremony Aug. 20 at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. The 20-year-old college student from ...

The 72nd Princess Kay of the Milky Way was crowned on the eve of the opening of the Minnesota State Fair. Malorie Thorson, a 20-year-old student at South Dakota State University (SDSU) from Waverly, ...