The Milky Way is home to hundreds of billions of stars arranged in a glorious spiral pattern. But beyond the obvious spiral, ...

A Spanish-led team dated stars with Gaia and found the galactic disk formed in two stages, a puffy turbulent one and then a ...

See that strip of stars splashed across the night sky? That’s our home galaxy, the Milky Way. You can see it from Earth because we live on its very outskirts, far away from all the fun stuff happening ...

Uncover how Gaia data reveals the Milky Way's two-stage disk formation, explaining why its oldest stars formed in a thicker, ...

Credit: The EAGLE project/Durham University Galaxy simulations suggest the Milky Way offers some of the universe’s best ...

You can be moving at extraordinary speed and still feel completely stationary. The reason comes down to the difference between velocity and the changes in motion your body can actually detect.

It’s the start of a supernatural season, and this month is packed with astronomical events to check out. Related video above: Artemis II reveals a stunning view of the Milky Way This month, we'll have ...

Near the centre of the Milky Way, a swarm of stars hurtles around a supermassive black hole at extraordinary speeds. Studying them could be the key to understanding our galaxy ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered a supernova erupting just 1.1 billion years after the ...

The Milky Way galaxy is ablaze with dust in this all-sky map from Planck, a European Space Agency mission. The towers of fiery colors are actually dust in the galaxy and beyond th ...

The Milky Way’s central black hole could lose mass by powering escaping particles, and new calculations suggest how ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals a vast nursery where thousands of stars are forming inside clouds of ...