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 not always possess its familiar spiral ...

Today, we know that we are looking along the plane of our spiral galaxy, consisting of at least 100 billion stars. But understanding the shape of the Milky Way proved elusive up until the 20th ...

New findings may help define a clearer portrait of the Milky Way’s ever-evolving frame. And one idea suggests the ancient Milky Way was shaped like a lentil.

The shape of our galaxy may reveal a history of collisions with other galaxies or even galactic clusters.

Billions of years ago, the Milky Way would have been unrecognizable. Here's how it took its modern shape.

Two colliding galaxies have been found to be reorganizing their dwarf satellites, potentially solving a major conundrum ...

A massive X-shaped formation of stars sitting in the central bulge of our galaxy, the Milky Way, was recently discovered through a research effort largely driven by Twitter.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with a ...

The Milky Way’s future is irrevocably linked with the Andromeda Galaxy, and together, they are on a collision course set to take place in approximately 2.5 billion years.

Like a misshapen potato chip, our home galaxy is warped. A new 3-D map brings the contorted structure of the Milky Way’s disk into better view, thanks to measurements of special stars called ...

The Milky Way is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky throughout the United States, including Ohio.

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.