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 ...

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

From the meteor showers to super moons, this time of year gives us a front row seat to one of the most active regions of the galaxy ...

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

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

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

For decades, astronomers have mapped the Milky Way using visible light, but much of our galaxy has remained hidden behind ...

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

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

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

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

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