NASA’s James Webb Telescope discovers the oldest supernova ever seen, offering insights into early universe star formation ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

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

Galaxies like our Milky Way grew through cascading mergers of smaller galaxies that began billions of years ago. The ancient ...

Star chemistry reveals two spiral arms and a faint bridge in the Milky Way, offering a clearer view of hidden structure in ...

The key enabling tools behind the discovery are the extraordinary sensitivity of JWST and a phenomenon called gravitational ...

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

Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected ...

Two new awards totaling $4.8 million will fund next-generation instruments for mid-sized telescopes at Lick and McDonald Observatories, enabling researchers to study how planets and stars form. The ...

Galaxy Alaknanda challenges long-held theories of galaxy formation, which maintained that stable spiral galaxies could only ...

A new study using Auriga simulations explains the Milky Way’s chemical bimodality. Stars split into magnesium-rich and iron-rich sequences, revealing multiple evolutionary paths shaping our galaxy.