The solution to a persistent astronomical question that has puzzled scientists for half a century has emerged not from direct ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

Observations from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have revealed a giant wave rippling through the disk of the Milky Way. This image derived from Gaia data shows an edge-on view of our galaxy; ...

Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

All of the people and mountains and planets and stars that you see around you only make up 15% of the universe's mass. The rest of it is dark matter.

Researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), in collaboration with the Institute of Astrophysics of ...

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It is well known that the Milky Way rotates around a supermassive black hole, but researchers have found that our galaxy undulates up and down as well like a giant galactic merry-go-round. Katia ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...