Discover how the Milky Way speeds through space at 600 km/s, pulled by a mysterious region called the Great Attractor. Hidden ...

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

Milky Way black hole mystery reveals a hidden cosmic scar near Sagittarius A. Astronomers discovered a strange cavity shaped ...

Astronomers have achieved one of the most precise measurements ever made of the Milky Way’s distant spiral arms, revealing ...

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 ...

For billions of years before reaching its current location, the Sun may have slowly travelled as part of a large group, or “wave,” of stars drifting out from the inner parts of the Milky Way. This ...

Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton, a team of researchers made ...

The two large spiral arms of the Milky Way may be about 10% further from Earth than previously thought. The new measurements ...