The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, each following its own evolutionary path through birth, life, and ...
Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time.
Created using data from two extensive surveys, this spectacular radio image of the galactic plane of the Milky Way provides valuable insights into the birth and death of stars.
Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...
First-light images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have revealed a 163,000-light-year stream of stars emanating from the ...
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 ...
"Asteroseismology with Roman is possible because we don't need to ask the telescope to do anything it wasn't already planning ...
The mass of the Milky Way is one of the most fundamental measurements astronomers can make about our galactic home. However, despite decades of intense effort, even the best available estimates of the ...