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

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

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

A new study suggests that a violent collision between the Milky Way and another galaxy called the Gaia Sausage may have ...

A joint US-Russian crew safely returned to Earth after completing their mission. They spent over eight months aboard the ...

Astronomers have found evidence related to the Milky Way’s incident of flipping on its side. Around 10 years ago, the galaxy ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Halo 18 is an example of a galaxy that had a head-on collision (see the panel at z=1.2) and had a disc flip (you can see this by comparing the disc orientation at z=1.4 and z=0). This image and Image ...