The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...

The night sky often feels calm, yet the early universe tells a very different story. A newly studied ancient galaxy, seen as ...

Three of the oldest stars in our universe have been discovered, and they were lurking right under our noses this whole time, and traveling in the wrong direction The heavenly bodies were detected by ...

First-light images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have revealed a 163,000-light-year stream of stars emanating from the ...

An MIT astronomy class has found three of the oldest stars in the universe lurking right outside the Milky Way. The stars, about 30,000 light-years from Earth, are in the galaxy's "halo," the cloud of ...

Created using data from two extensive surveys, this spectacular radio image of the galactic plane of the Milky Way provides valuable insights into the birth and death of stars.

Our understanding of where we fit in the universe has been transformed.

Observations show the disk of our galaxy is not flat but warped and waving. Astronomers are still working out the reasons why ...

Galaxies from the early Universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought, flipping the entire narrative of how scientists think about structure formation in the Universe, according to ...

To find the universe’s oldest stars, you must look for the ones with low chemical abundances and a retrograde orbit. That’s what a group of students in a class of MIT professor of physics and division ...