Scientists once thought the early universe didn't make them.

For most of human history, the Milky Way has been a hazy band of light, a backdrop rather than a map. Now, by reading the ...

“Observing the Galaxy is like standing in the middle of a brightly lit city at night. If you look toward the outskirts, the ...

Instead of limiting methods that rely on stellar positioning or gas distribution alone, an international team utilized the ...

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 ...

The Milky Way is not the calm, flat starry disk many of us learned about in school. Astronomers are now tracking a colossal, ...

This section of our Mass Effect Legendary Edition guide details the Codex Entries for Primary Planets and Locations. This information is taken straight from the games, allowing you to read this ...

The blank horizontal bar is the galactic plane area, which was excluded from the analysis to avoid strong astrophysical ...

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

Razor-thin chain of 14 galaxies may be the biggest spinning structure yet ...

Researchers unveil a method using stellar chemical compositions to map hidden structures in the Milky Way, enhancing our understanding of Galactic dynamics.