From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds ...

A galaxy remarkably similar in shape to our own Milky Way, yet significantly bigger and dating back to the universe's infancy, has been observed by astronomers. This cosmic relic, dubbed J0107a, ...

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A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

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

Astrophysicists have recently discovered something that has left them completely baffled. Something is causing massive bullet ...

Using artificial intelligence, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, alongside collaborators from the University of Tokyo and the Universitat de ...

Astronomers have identified RR Lyrae stars extending up to 1 million light-years from the Milky Way's core, significantly expanding the observed boundary of its outer halo. These RR Lyrae stars ...

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A research team in Japan has created a groundbreaking Milky Way simulation that follows more than 100 billion stars with a level of detail that was once thought impossible.

Meet the Milky Way in its own words. The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy takes a tour of our home in the cosmos from an unexpected perspective. Astrophysicist and folklorist Moiya McTier ...