The earliest example of the Milky Way cannibalising a smaller galaxy for its growth involved a cosmic meal that left a scar ...

Most of the stars in our Milky Way galaxy sit neatly on a flat plane. But the space around our galaxy is much more chaotic.

Look up on a dark night and the Milky Way appears as a calm band of stars across the sky. But our galaxy has a violent past. For more than 13 billion years it has grown through star formation and ...

Most galaxies are likely surrounded by long filaments of orbiting stars known as stellar streams. In a new study from the University of Washington, astronomers simulated stellar streams — pictured ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression depicts the Milky Way based on data from the Gaia telescope. - ESA/Gaia/DPAC, S. Payne-Wardenaa An unusual ...

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope reveal that our galaxy also has a giant wave rippling outwards from ...

New research from Johns Hopkins University and an international team of scientists suggests that two competing theories for the diffuse glow near the center of the Milky Way—colliding dark matter ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia space telescope has ...

Astronomers have created a new colorized radio view of the Milky Way's galactic plane. Credit: International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research Astronomers in Australia have created the largest and ...

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