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

Research shows that galaxies form inside gigantic haloes of dark matter, the elusive substance that doesn't interact with ...

A cosmic drama is unfolding at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is watching the story ...

Astronomers have long used the Milky Way as a benchmark for studying galaxy formation and evolution, assuming that its ...

Scientists may have finally hit upon the possible mysterious sources that have pumped heat and kept alive the fiery hot gas ...

For years, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form and evolve. But new research ...

For decades, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form. But three new studies raise ...

These objects were actually the Andromeda and Messier 33 galaxies, the closest large galaxies to our Milky Way. Today, up to ...

For more than a hundred years, astronomers have been convinced that the Andromeda galaxy is on a collision path with the milky way, this is projected to occur in around 5 billion years. However, a ...

The Milky Way bar is a classic - you've probably had a few in your time. But where did it all start? To answer that, we have ...

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over the intense heat and persistence of the fiery hot gas surrounding the Milky Way.