The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history. It did not grow though simple and calm accretion, but rather through the aggressive mergers of multiple smaller galaxies. Recently, a team of ...

A new view of the Milky Way: Warped and twisted Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is "warped and twisted" and not flat as previously thought, new research shows. Analysis of the brightest stars in the ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

So, he and his sister Caroline counted the all stars ... astronomer R.J. Trumpler realized that the estimates of the size of ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.

The satellite images are sorted by their luminosity from left to right. Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer this question ...

The entire Milky Way is actually constantly spinning around our galaxy's black hole heart ... mph (720,000 km/h), according to Live Science's sister site Space.com. This seems incredibly fast ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Toronto has found what they believe is the oldest stellar disk in the Milky Way galaxy.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Have you ever seen a giant galaxy with your own naked eyes? That’s ...

When our mother turned 60, my sister living in Virginia, secretly drove up for the celebration and hid in my coat closet. Mom ...