The Milky Way was once a textbook example of how a spiral galaxy should form and evolve. Now a wave of new observations and ...

A puzzling ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could come from the destruction of nuggets of dark matter, the mysterious stuff that makes up around a quarter of the matter and energy in the ...

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

A new study shows how Milky Way chemical tracks emerge from shifting star formation and gas supply, reshaping ideas about the ...