The Milky Way was rewired by a cataclysmic collision billions of years ago. Now it is on course for another

As a galactic archaeologist, my job is to reconstruct the past of our galaxy – and read the signs of its future.
BBC Sky at Night Magazine on MSN

The Milky Way has been forged by collisions with other galaxies. So why does it keep forgetting them?

New research shows how rapidly the Milky Way erases traces of collisions ...
AOL

The Sun could be one of thousands of solar twins moving through the Milky Way

For billions of years before reaching its current location, the Sun may have slowly travelled as part of a large group, or “wave,” of stars drifting out from the inner parts of the Milky Way. This ...
The Shillong Times

The Milky Way in Collision: Past and Future of Our Galaxy

Unusually compared with many galaxies of similar mass, the Milky Way was allowed ample time to recover from the shock of the “sausage merger”. No other cosmic cataclysm appears to have shaken our ...

Something left a giant scar next to our galaxy’s Black Hole, and scientists finally have answers

Milky Way black hole mystery reveals a hidden cosmic scar near Sagittarius A. Astronomers discovered a strange cavity shaped ...

Astronomers have revised the size of the Milky Way

The two large spiral arms of the Milky Way may be about 10% further from Earth than previously thought. The new measurements ...
The Daily Galaxy on MSN

A brilliant cosmic explosion helped astronomers discover the Milky Way is bigger than expected

Astronomers have achieved one of the most precise measurements ever made of the Milky Way’s distant spiral arms, revealing ...
KSL

The Milky Way ate another galaxy. Scientists say they've found the scraps

WASHINGTON — An unusual collection of stars may represent the remnants of a dwarf galaxy that the Milky Way devoured about 10 billion years ago. Astronomers have dubbed the ancient galaxy Loki, after ...