An artist’s impression of the Milky Way, with two of its satellite galaxies – the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud – in the bottom left. Our Milky Way's halo of hot gas is warmer ...

The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is a vast and mysterious system brimming with stars, planets, dust, and cosmic wonders. For centuries, humans could only admire its hazy band across the night sky, but ...

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...