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

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

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

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

The center of the Milky Way is super bright because it’s packed with a lot of stars and a supermassive black hole. That black ...

Indian scientists have discovered an ancient and massive galaxy called Alaknanda. It looks similar to our Milky Way galaxy ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy from cosmic dawn is rewriting ideas about how fast the Universe built its first galaxies.

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

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

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

Our solar system is a passenger on a galactic rollercoaster. Part 2 reveals how the Sun, carrying Earth, orbits the Milky Way's core at 491,000 mph, completing a circuit every 230 million years. We ...

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