The Milky Way may have once performed a colossal, slow-motion somersault. Its starry disc appears to have swung through more ...
An artist's impression of the disk of the Milky Way. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) It's easy to think of our home galaxy as a relatively ...
Durham University researchers find cataclysmic direct hit with Gaia Sausage sent Milky Way into its current position ...
The Milky Way may not always have faced the same direction. New simulations suggest its stellar disc could have swung through space by more than 90 degrees after an ancient collision, helping explain ...
Astronomers discovered the Milky Way was flipped on its side 10bn years ago after a direct collision with a dwarf galaxy, the ...
The Milky Way may have undergone a dramatic change in orientation during its history, according to new research that helps ...
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a fairly large one in our part of the universe. In part, its size is thanks to several minor ...
New measurements suggest that two of the Milky Way's spiral arms are around 10% farther away from Earth than we thought. The ...
The two large spiral arms of the Milky Way may be about 10% further from Earth than previously thought. The new measurements ...
The new results are based on the team's analysis of data taken by the Gaia and APOGEE instruments. Gaia is an orbiting space telescope that tracks the precise location, distance, and motion of more ...