The Milky Way may have changed its orientation after a head-on collision with a dwarf galaxy about 10 billion years ago.

The Milky Way may not always have faced the same direction. New simulations suggest its stellar disc could have swung through ...

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

New research suggests the Milky Way's disc flipped after a head-on collision with Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus. The finding may ...

The Milky Way is ancient, and its first stars formed shortly after the Big Bang. It’s been through a lot in its long life, ...

An artist's impression of the disk of the Milky Way. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) It's easy to think of our home galaxy as a relatively ...

The Milky Way may have undergone a dramatic change in orientation during its history, according to new research that helps ...

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

Astronomers used cosmic explosions to find that we may be wrong about our own galaxy.

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia space telescope has ...

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 ...