Astronomers have uncovered the true twisted nature of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Until now, the galaxy was generally thought to be a flat spiral consisting of an estimated 250 billion stars. The sun ...

From a great distance, our galaxy would look like a thin disk of stars that orbit once every few hundred million years around its central region, where hundreds of billions of stars provide the ...

Scientists are revolutionizing our understanding of the universe’s most mysterious component: dark matter, the invisible substance that accounts for 27% of the universe’s total mass. Using ...

The Milky Way’s disk of stars is ‘warped’ and twisted, according to scientists who have built the first accurate 3D map of Earth’s home galaxy. Researchers from the Macquarie University in Australia ...