Somewhere between us and the Sagittarius Arm, the Milky Way’s magnetic field quietly switches direction. A team of radio ...

The Milky Way’s magnetic field, the invisible scaffold that steers cosmic rays and shapes the gas between stars, has been hiding a secret. A team of radio astronomers has discovered that the field ...

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For ages, mapping the precise architecture of our home galaxy has been a challenge similar to attempting to draw a complete map of a vast, brightly lit city while standing trapped in the dense, hazy ...

Astronomers have uncovered a strange magnetic “flip” hidden inside the Milky Way. Using a new radio telescope, researchers ...

From this vantage point looking at the Milky Way from its edge, the galactic bulge might appear as a glowing orb of stars, ...

Galaxies are far more than the sum of their stars. Long before stars even formed, dark matter clumped up and drew regular matter together with its gravity, providing the invisible scaffolding upon ...

The Milky Way may have gone through a violent cosmic collision billions of years ago that dramatically changed the structure ...

UNSPECIFIED - SEPTEMBER 07: A binocular observer and the spectacular appearance of our Milky Way galaxy, as seen from a very dark site. (Photo by Babek Tafreshi/SSPL/Getty Images) UNSPECIFIED - ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Our Milky Way galaxy has four arms instead of two, according to just published results of a 12-year study by scientists in the U.K. Unlike our view of other galaxies, it's challenging to figure out ...