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

A record-breaking number of stars has been mapped by a new model that speeds up processing time while allowing smaller scale ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation emanating from the ...

Scientists from Japan's RIKEN research centre have created the most detailed simulation of the Milky Way ever made.

"It's possible we will see the new data and confirm one theory over the other — or maybe we'll find nothing, in which case it'll be an even greater mystery to resolve." The century-old mystery of dark ...

The glowing red band represents high concentrations of gamma rays across the center of the Milky Way. NASA / DOE / Fermi LAT Collaboration Dark matter—an unseen substance thought to make up 27 percent ...

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 ...

Florida is home to three listed "dark sky" locations that may offer the best views of the Milky Way's galactic center. The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than ...

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, ...

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 center of our Milky Way galaxy is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky. Spectators will have the best luck on cloud-free nights and in locations away from ...