"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, each following its own evolutionary path through birth, life, and ...

Astrophysicists have always dreamed of running a simulation of the Milky Way that could track every single star—each orbit, ...

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

Learn how a newly detected gamma-ray halo in the Milky Way could mark the first direct glimpse of dark matter.

A research team in Japan has created a groundbreaking Milky Way simulation that follows more than 100 billion stars with a level of detail that was once thought impossible.

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

More than a decade ago, scientists predicted our Milky Way galaxy and neighboring Andromeda would collide in four billion years, resulting in a “makeover” of our solar system. Now, that is unlikely — ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...

People will be able to catch a glimpse of the Milky Way galaxy this weekend The Milky Way will be viewable with the naked eye, but telescopes always help The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc ...