How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

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

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

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 ...

American space agency NASA announced the first major science program for the Nancy Grace Roman telescope, aside from the ...

A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this strange place holds thousands of newborn stars, huge clouds of gas, and ...

A dead star located 15,000 light-years away, GPM J1839-10, has been pulsing every 22 minutes for decades, defying laws of ...

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

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...