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 ...

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

Milky Way disk flip simulations from Durham University's NAM 2026 presentation show the Milky Way's galactic disk flipped more than 90 degrees after a head-on collision with the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus ...

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, ...

A recent paper reveals we're almost certainly going to collide with a galaxy in the next couple billion years, but it's not the one we thought. Reading time 2 minutes For over a decade, researchers ...

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 ...

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AI-boosted simulation models one hundred billion Milky Way stars over ten thousand years, achieving one hundred times the detail and speed for astrophysics and climate modeling. (Nanowerk News) ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Simulations that have previously tried to ...