Latest about Milky Way
Our entire galaxy is warping, and a gigantic blob of dark matter could be to blame
An invisible halo of misaligned dark matter could explain the warps at the Milky Way's edges.
How far apart are stars?
Scientists have calculated the average distance between stars, but there's much more to star distribution than meets the eye.
James Webb telescope reveals the universe may have far fewer active black holes than we thought
Almost every galaxy in the universe has a supermassive black hole at its center. So why is it so hard to find young black holes actively feeding?
The Milky Way wasn't always a spiral —and astronomers may finally know why it 'shape-shifted'
A century-old mystery of how galaxies change shapes has been solved by considering 'survival of the fittest' collisions between cosmic titans.
Hundreds of 'ghost stars' haunt the Milky Way's center. Scientists may finally know why.
Ghostly nebulas created by exploding stars appear to align in the Milky Way's bulging center. Astronomers may finally know why.
Neutrino map of the galaxy is 1st view of the Milky Way in 'anything other than light'
Scientists at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have used 60,000 neutrinos to create the first map of the Milky Way made with matter and not light.
Cosmic-ray 'GPS' system that tracks underground movement could change the way we respond to disasters
A new system that uses subatomic particles produced high in Earth's atmosphere could provide a view inside volcanoes and help locate people trapped beneath rubble.
Enormous structure discovered near doomed galaxy group is the longest galactic 'tail' ever seen
The 1.5-million-light-year-long gas trail was caused by a group of galaxies moving 3 million miles per hour
