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

A long-held dream in astronomy has finally come into reach, and it carries a surprising emotional weight. For years, ...

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

Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time.

Astronomers have revolutionized our understanding of a collection of stars in the northern sky called the Pleiades. They used ...

Astronomers have identified a compact, superheated galaxy in the early universe that is churning out new suns at roughly 180 ...

An international team of astrophysicists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI, USA) has discovered ...

Editor's note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. (CNN) — Researchers have discovered a ...

Astronomers at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) discovered for the first time that the hot gas in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning in the ...

The Milky Way galaxy, comprised of billions of stars, will be visible in the night sky until the end of May, particularly between the last quarter moon (May 20) and the new moon (May 30). Light ...

(CNN) — Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it could change our understanding of how galaxies form. The galaxy, ...