First, a quick overview: the Milky Way is classified as a disk galaxy, with a broad circular collection of stars, gas and ...

The motions of stars in the Milky Way have revealed a giant outward ripple, set off by a massive event sometime in our galaxy's wild past. In a new analysis of data collected by the Gaia space-mapping ...

Astronomers are grappling with a cosmic mystery as they observe a massive ripple, known as “The Great Wave”, sweeping across the Milky Way. This phenomenon, which is shifting stars by hundreds of ...

Natasha Hurley-Walker receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Silvia Mantovanini does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

The Milky Way is a rich and complex environment. We see it as a luminous line stretching across the night sky, composed of innumerable stars. But that's just the visible light. Observing the sky in ...

Plans for a 230-mile transmission line threaten Nevada’s wilderness and have united hunters and wildlife groups ...

"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.

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

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

Researchers led by Keiya Hirashima at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS) ...

Shares of IonQ, Rigetti Computing, D-Wave Quantum, and Quantum Computing Inc. have surged by up to 2,720% over the trailing year. Though quantum computing pure-play stocks are popular among investors, ...