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 ...

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 ...

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

New 3I/ATLAS images from NASA and the ESA suggest the interstellar comet is active as it approaches Earth in December.

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

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

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 ...

"It means cleaning house, narrowing the viable paths forward, and no longer spending energy on what are evidently dead ends." ...