A new supercomputer simulation traces how thousands of small galaxies eventually became the Milky Way.

See that strip of stars splashed across the night sky? That’s our home galaxy, the Milky Way. You can see it from Earth ...

You can watch how these galaxies coalesced over time and formed the familiar spiral disk we see today, thanks to a new set of simulations by a group of scientists led by Harley Katz, assistant ...

Near the centre of the Milky Way, a swarm of stars hurtles around a supermassive black hole at extraordinary speeds. Studying ...

In the early days of the universe, our home looked very different from how it does today. Back then, the region in our ...

Dark clouds swirl across a star-speckled sky as the Milky Way stretches above La Silla Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert.

The Milky Way may be producing more antimatter than assumed. Two researchers have found possible evidence in intergalactic ...

September may be a good time to catch a sight of the Milky Way's center while it's still easily visible in 2026 across the US. Here's how.

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Scientists suspect a black hole lurks at the center of most galaxies. The Milky Way’s black hole is called Sagittarius A*. (A* is scientist-code for “A-star.”) Its gravity, or attractive force, is so ...

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