As a galactic archaeologist, my job is to reconstruct the past of our galaxy – and read the signs of its future.

Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope. This map will teach ...

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) captured the center of the Milky Way galaxy in infrared. The image spans "more than 600 light-years," according to the NASA's Ames Research ...

A team of astronomers has discovered that the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy may stretch further out into space than was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression depicts the Milky Way based on data from the Gaia telescope. - ESA/Gaia/DPAC, S. Payne-Wardenaa An unusual ...

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Unusually compared with many galaxies of similar mass, the Milky Way was allowed ample time to recover from the shock of the “sausage merger”. No other cosmic cataclysm appears to have shaken our ...

Our home galaxy has a secret buried inside. A new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests that the Milky Way swallowed an ancient dwarf galaxy billions of ...