No name, illustration, or description of the Milky Way has been found in Egyptian texts or visual representations. For the better part of a century, this has baffled Egyptologists. After all ...

The vast polar structure—a plane of satellite galaxies at the poles of the Milky Way—is at the center of a tug-of-war between scientists who disagree about the existence of mysterious dark matter, the ...

Thanks to some astrophysical sleuthing, researchers have pinpointed an early galactic merger that helped shape the Milky Way. The merger — a collision, actually — happened 11.5 billion years ago. That ...

A new view of the Milky Way: Warped and twisted Our galaxy ... shows that they do not lie on a flat plane as shown in academic texts and popular science books. Astronomers from Warsaw University ...

Coffin Texts, and Book of Nut. That article suggests that Egyptian astronomers used the Milky Way's curvature to locate the constellation representing Nut. He also found clues about Nut's ...

from tomb paintings and carvings to funerary texts and sarcophagi. It was when he came upon one particular sarcophagus that he realized something. Nut did not represent the Milky Way, but it was ...

(CNN) — An international team of astrophysicists has discovered hundreds of mysterious structures in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. These one-dimensional cosmic threads are hundreds of ...

(CNN) — Astronomers have used the Gaia space telescope to spy some of the first building blocks of the Milky Way galaxy: two ancient streams of stars named Shakti and Shiva that helped our home ...

A new map reveals the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, including a wave of stars disturbed by a small galaxy on a collision course with our own. Data collected from the European Space Agency’s ...

The newly-discovered dark dwarf galaxy Antlia 2’s collision with the Milky Way may be responsible for our galaxy’s characteristic ripples in its outer disc, according to a study led by Rochester ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe - called Firefly Sparkle because its gleaming star clusters resemble the ...

(CNN) — For the first time, astronomers have assembled a glowing portrait of the Milky Way galaxy using cosmic “ghost particles” detected by a telescope embedded in Antarctica’s ice.