Something enormous is on its way to our cosmic neighborhood. The Milky Way, along with our closest major neighbor the Andromeda galaxy, is moving toward a future collision. These are not small systems ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression depicts the Milky Way based on data from the Gaia telescope. - ESA/Gaia/DPAC, S. Payne-Wardenaa An unusual ...

The Milky Way may have emerged from a crowded cosmic environment filled with thousands of smaller galaxies, many of them unlike anything visible in our galactic neighborhood today. A new generation of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Study of 6,594 solar twins suggests the Sun migrated outward from the Milky Way's center 4–6 billion years ago. (CREDIT: ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from Germany, France and Sweden show that most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local ...

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 ...

For billions of years before reaching its current location, the Sun may have slowly travelled as part of a large group, or “wave,” of stars drifting out from the inner parts of the Milky Way. This ...