Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

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

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

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

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

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