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

Durham University researchers find cataclysmic direct hit with Gaia Sausage sent Milky Way into its current position ...

A new study suggests that a violent collision between the Milky Way and another galaxy called the Gaia Sausage may have ...

A dramatic collision between the Milky Way and a dwarf galaxy around 10 billion years ago may have completely changed the ...

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 ...

As a galactic archaeologist, my job is to reconstruct the past of our galaxy – and read the signs of its future.

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 ...

Astronomers discovered the Milky Way was flipped on its side 10bn years ago after a direct collision with a dwarf galaxy, the ...

Astronomers have found evidence related to the Milky Way’s incident of flipping on its side. Around 10 years ago, the galaxy ...

Our Milky Way galaxy might have “flipped” on its side, astronomers have said. Researchers believe that the galaxy underwent a dramatic transformation during its history, where its orientation changed ...

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, ...

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 ...