For most of human history, the Milky Way has been a hazy band of light, a backdrop rather than a map. Now, by reading the ...

The Milky Way is not the calm, flat starry disk many of us learned about in school. Astronomers are now tracking a colossal, ...

Using some of the world's most powerful telescopes, a team of researchers found more than 280 galaxies stretched in a line ...

This list exemplifies the hard work in science over this past year, not simply in the lab but where it matters.

Just ahead of the third instalment of Hideki Kamiya's stylish action game series, PlatinumGames revealed that Taylor — who ...

Star chemistry reveals two spiral arms and a faint bridge in the Milky Way, offering a clearer view of hidden structure in ...

“Observing the Galaxy is like standing in the middle of a brightly lit city at night. If you look toward the outskirts, the ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are helping reshape how scientists study the sun. The ...

Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time. The most detailed supercomputer simulation ever of our Milky Way galaxy has ...

Scientists from Japan's RIKEN research centre have created the most detailed simulation of the Milky Way ever made. The incredible galactic map charts more than 100 billion individual stars over the ...

Scientists have created the first-ever simulation that models every one of the Milky Way’s 100 billion stars, using AI to run galaxy-scale physics 100 times faster than previous methods. A new ...

Researchers have successfully performed the world's first Milky Way simulation that accurately represents more than 100 billion individual stars over the course of 10 thousand years. This feat was ...