The formation of the Milky Way is one event that we're no able to physically observe (obviously). We're inside the galaxy at its current point in history, and so we can see how it currently looks.

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy with curved arms stretching out into space. Most depictions of our galaxy show it as being rather flat, but data from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment ...

A small team of astronomers from Yunnan University, the University of Utah, New Mexico State University, and the University of St Andrews has created a new model of the Milky Way galaxy based on ...

And although no one ever really thought the Milky Way was flat flat, ... Six years of tracking a special class of star have yielded a new and improved 3D model of our galaxy, ...

Our Milky Way galaxy has been mapped like never before in a new 3D model that gives us a better understanding of our galaxy.

Researchers used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, with some concern from ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

Astrophysicists simulate a Milky Way-like galaxy; Supercomputer experiment supports cosmological model of a 'cold dark matter' universe Date: August 29, 2011 ...

Astronomers have now deduced what alien scientists might see when they gaze at the Milky Way from afar. The new results suggest our home galaxy is unusual but not unique, at least when it comes to ...

The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

We live in the Milky Way galaxy, an immense, flat, spiral galaxy surrounded by a massive halo of stars and dark matter. The disk of stars, gas, and dust in which the Sun resides is fully 120,000 ...