"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

The Milky Way has just been reconstructed in unprecedented detail, with artificial intelligence helping astronomers track the ...

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

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Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral ...

First, a quick overview: the Milky Way is classified as a disk galaxy, with a broad circular collection of stars, gas and ...

The galaxy, known as Y1, existed just 800 million years after the Big Bang and is forming stars 180 times faster than the ...

The discovery highlights intense, hidden starbursts that shaped early galaxies less than a billion years after the Big Bang.

Queen guitarist Sir Brian May's latest book explores the history, mystery and evolution of galaxies in a way never tried ...

Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...