The Milky Way may not always have faced the same direction. New simulations suggest its stellar disc could have swung through ...
For decades, astronomers have cast galaxy mergers as the universe's ultimate relationship drama: two galaxies collide, chaos ...
Milky Way disk flip simulations from Durham University's NAM 2026 presentation show the Milky Way's galactic disk flipped more than 90 degrees after a head-on collision with the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus ...
A slowly rotating stellar halo was the clue to a major and unknown event in the Milky Way's history that saw the spiral disc ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified a rare system of at least five galaxies merging in the early universe, approximately 800 million years after the Big Bang. The ...
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 ...