Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short ‘Milky Way season’ lasts ...

New data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite catalog has discovered that the Milky Way is a lot smaller than astronomers previously thought. But how will this fact change what we ...

This allowed him to capture various images of how the sky’s appearance changed as the Earth rotated, giving us different views of the Milky Way and the night sky as a whole.

A new study done by physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that stars at the edge of the Milky Way travel more slowly than those closer to the center.

They found that to find another galaxy just as outsized in its own wall as the Milky Way is, you'd have to travel 160–200 megaparsecs, or between around 521,600,000 and 652,000,000 light years.

The colossal black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning almost as fast as its maximum rotation rate ...

In 2019, Anna-Christina Eilers, assistant professor of physics at MIT, worked to chart the Milky Way’s rotation curve, using an earlier batch of data released by the Gaia satellite.

In 2019, Anna-Christina Eilers, assistant professor of physics at MIT, worked to chart the Milky Way's rotation curve, using an earlier batch of data released by the Gaia satellite.

The galaxies identified as rotating in the same direction relative to the Milky Way (counterclockwise). Shamir, Lior, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 2025 under CC BY 4.0 ...

REBELS-25 is much younger than our galaxy, but it already shares its rotation and structure, rather than appearing clumpy and chaotic like other early galaxies, the researchers said in a statement ...

Toronto (CTV Network) — A new study done by physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found that stars at the edge of the Milky Way travel more slowly than those closer to ...