New measurements suggest that the Milky Way galaxy may have a different shape than we thought. Over the past few years, astronomers have increasingly discovered that galaxies seem to come in three ...

There’s more to the Milky Way than meets the eye. The silvery stream that spills across the night sky is just one piece of the complicated bundle of stars that makes up our galaxy.

The Milky Way has a strange warped shape, and scientists now believe this may be the result of a relatively recent or ongoing collision with another galaxy. While you may think of the Milky Way ...

"It's survival of the fittest out there." A 100-year-old mystery surrounding the "shape-shifting" nature of some galaxies has been solved, revealing in the process that our Milky Way galaxy did ...

The Milky Way dominates the night sky. It appears as a hazy band of light that stretches from one horizon to the other. But this side-on view hides the galaxy’s structure and prevents astronomers ...

"The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," according to the Capture the Atlas ...

The Milky Way galaxy's arms grew from a collision with the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, a new study suggestions. The collision concept is known as a minor merger for galaxies, scientists say.

Every single galaxy has its own unique cosmic story, and the Milky Way is just one typical example. As grown up as we are, we're still evolving. Further reading on what the Universe was like when: ...

Should the Milky Way-Andromeda daughter galaxy encounter a third, dust-rich lenticular galaxy and merge with it, then the disk-like aspects of both galaxies will also be wiped clean.

The conventional view of the Milky Way galaxy as having four arms may be incorrect, according to a new study which attempts to discover the true shape of our abode in the universe.. As telescope ...

But understanding the shape of the Milky Way proved elusive up until the 20th century. The problem is we can’t get a bird’s eye view of our galaxy because our solar system is buried within the ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.