For decades, astronomers have mapped the Milky Way using visible light, but much of our galaxy has remained hidden behind ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

For decades, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form. But three new studies raise questions about whether the Milky Way is truly representative of other ...

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has looked into the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, unveiling new features and mysteries within the chaotic region that could help astronomers unravel more details about ...

The NASA Chandra X-ray Center and Observatory has entered new territory and is now creating music from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is a telescope specially ...

Three of the oldest stars in our universe have been discovered, and they were lurking right under our noses this whole time, and traveling in the wrong direction The heavenly bodies were detected by ...

The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...

A Milky Way doppleganger discovered in the early universe suggests some key physical ingredient is missing from cosmological models. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

To find the universe’s oldest stars, you must look for the ones with low chemical abundances and a retrograde orbit. That’s what a group of students in a class of MIT professor of physics and division ...