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

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

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

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 ...

A team from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) has published a paper that reveals ...

An international team of scientists led from the Centre for Astrobiology (CAB, CSIC-INTA), with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has used the Gran Telescopio Canarias ...

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...

Astronomers used a telescope to look into the heart of our galaxy, the Milky Way, in great detail and found a surprising bit of history. The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope spied ...

A surprising discovery that hydrogen gas clouds found in abundance in and above our Milky Way Galaxy have preferred locations has given astronomers a key clue about the origin of such clouds, which ...

Researchers using the Gaia space telescope studied some ancient stars near the sun, revealing that our corner of the Milky Way may be billions of years older than once thought. When you purchase ...

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