A new map of the Milky Way confirms something researchers have long suspected: this galaxy is warped. That’s right. The abiding sense of cosmic disarray you’re feeling is not just a sign of ...

Rather than being flat as a Frisbee, the Milky Way’s star-studded disk is twisted and warped, according to a new three-dimensional map of our home galaxy. If viewed from the side, the spiral ...

have performed calculations that indicate the halo of dark matter enveloping the Milky Way could be "off-kilter," and this could be causing the flared edge and warped shape of our galaxy.

For 50 years, astronomers have puzzled over a mysterious warp in the Milky Way galaxy, as seen in the hydrogen ... Because many galaxies have warped disks, similar dynamics might explain them ...

Our galaxy is twisted and warped, scientists have said after a shock discovery. The Milky Way that surrounds us has long been presumed to be relatively stable and flat. But scientists have ...

A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the ...

egg-shaped galaxy. SEE ALSO: NASA scientist viewed first Voyager images. What he saw gave him chills. In a hypothetical view from Earth, the warped Milky Way and Andromeda (on right) after their ...

causing the entire galaxy to look warped. And while that might seem weird enough, the tilt itself may be evidence of the Milky Way’s violent past. A Disturbance in the Galaxy Eons before Hubble ...

With Gaia, astronomers could paint a sharper picture of the Milky Way — one that revealed many surprises. The bulge is not spherical but peanut-shaped, and it’s part of a larger bar spanning the ...

have performed calculations that indicate the halo of dark matter enveloping the Milky Way could be "off-kilter," and this could be causing the flared edge and warped shape of our galaxy. Not only ...