For decades, scientists have suspected the presence of a magnetic field that holds the Milky Way together, but only now has ...

A series of high-resolution simulations has revealed a striking new perspective on theMilky Way’s position in the cosmos. Far ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

New radio observations of the Milky Way are exposing hidden patterns in its magnetic field. People have scanned the night sky for ages, but some of the Milky Way’s most important features cannot be ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...

Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...

Scientists are mapping the Milky Way galaxy’s invisible magnetic field, revealing how it holds the galaxy together and ...

The dark matter distribution of a Milky Way mass halo in a Lambda-cold dark matter (LCDM) cosmological simulation. This is the highest resolution simulation of a MW-mass dark matter halo ever ...