The long-proposed Milky Way and Andromeda galactic merger might not be as certain as astronomers previously believed.

The result: an excess of 79 neutrinos over the background, with a statistical ... But what about our Milky Way galaxy? The denser portions of the Milky Way's inner galactic plane are the most ...

An artist’s impression of the Gaia spacecraft, the Milky Way in background. Illustration: Spacecraft: ESA/ATG medialab; Milky Way: ESA/Gaia/DPAC. Acknowledgement: A. Moitinho. Evidence of the ...

while the majestic Milky Way core dominates the background. Whenever I venture out to capture the night sky, I’m filled with a sense of humility and gratitude for my existence. It’s as if my ...

We had to use clever techniques to sort those 378 orbiting galaxies from thousands of objects in the background. It’s a real ...

A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the ...

Once the AI was accurate enough, it analyzed data for 2 million red giant stars in the Milky Way. Why red giants? Their brightness and metallicities stood out, and in the background were the stars ...