The galaxy our planet inhabits is called the Milky Way for the simple reason that, as seen from our world, its impossible-to-count collection of stars looks like a band of milky white light. In all ...

A huge "wave" is rippling through our galaxy, pushing billions of stars in its wake, a new study reveals. The Milky Way's galactic wave was spotted in mapping data from the European Space Agency's ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia space telescope has revealed that our Milky Way galaxy has a giant wave rippling outwards from its centre. The unexpected galactic ripple is illustrated in this ...

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from ESA's Gaia space telescope reveal that our galaxy also has a giant wave rippling outwards from its centre. (Nanowerk ...