The Milky Way looks serene from our vantage point, a hazy river of light arcing across the night sky. Yet the stars that make up that glow are quietly telling a more dramatic story, one in which our ...

Physicists discovered stars near the edge of the Milky Way travel more slowly than those closer to its center -- a surprise suggesting our galaxy's gravitational core may have less dark matter than ...

Toronto (CTV Network) — A new study done by physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found that stars at the edge of the Milky Way travel more slowly than those closer to the ...

Galactocentric XY-plane map of the 33 335 stars used for calculating circular velocities, plotted in 0.5 kpc bins. The vectors represent the mean velocity of stars within each bin, color coded by the ...

Stars at the edge of our home galaxy appear to be moving more slowly than expected, scientists have revealed. Based on the speed of the stars near the center of the Milky Way, astronomers assumed that ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has upended expectations again, revealing a massive spiral galaxy in the universe’s infancy ...

Editor's note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. (CNN) — Researchers have discovered a ...

Astronomers at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) discovered for the first time that the hot gas in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning in the ...

For reasons that remain mysterious, it seems our galaxy is different from the others. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Stars have ...

An high resolution image is available at http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2008/phot-30-08.html Pulsating stars enable a new precise determination of ...

A study by MIT physicists suggest the Milky Way’s gravitational core may be lighter in mass, and contain less dark matter, than previously thought. By clocking the speed of stars throughout the Milky ...