A new rotation curve analysis of the Milky Way reveals that conventional axisymmetric mass models cannot fully reconcile both photometric profiles and observed stellar motions. By modeling stellar, ...

The Milky Way galaxy's disk of stars may once have flipped onto its side. If it did, the Sun turned with it, along with the rest of ...

A team at Xiamen University has found a 7-sigma statistical fingerprint connecting the rotation of today's massive galaxies ...

Durham University researchers find cataclysmic direct hit with Gaia Sausage sent Milky Way into its current position ...

Astronomers discovered the Milky Way was flipped on its side 10bn years ago after a direct collision with a dwarf galaxy, the Gaia Sausage, reshaping its structure.

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 flip over by more than 90 degrees.

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has co-authored a paper that uses young stars to ...

Researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), in collaboration with the Institute of Astrophysics of ...

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The Milky Way may not always have faced the same direction. New simulations suggest its stellar disc could have swung through space by more than 90 degrees after an ancient collision, helping explain ...

There is a lot we have yet to understand about the center of the Milky Way—could it be due to a mass of invisible dark matter? Reading time 3 minutes Astronomers have yet to fully grasp the Galactic ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its centre but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark matter exerting the same gravitational influence. (Nanowerk News) Astronomers ...