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 ...

Star clusters are of great importance in any galaxy: they are the birthplace of new stars, often containing massive stars of ...

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

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 ...