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

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will map the Milky Way using infrared observations, studying star formation, stellar evolution, star clusters, and hidden galactic structures over a two-year survey.

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds ...

The Milky Way looks serene from our vantage point, a hazy river of light arcing across the night sky. Yet the stars that make ...

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

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

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

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

Big news for space enthusiasts: The James Webb Space Telescope, renowned for its remarkable ability to peer deep into the universe, has recently turned its gaze toward a particularly distant and ...

ESA’s Gaia mission has made a major breakthrough in unraveling the formation history of the Milky Way. Instead of forming alone, our galaxy merged with another large galaxy early in its life, around ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now think ...