Astronomers have discovered a stellar cluster hidden in the crowded disk of the Milky Way. The object, named Garro 04, was ...

You can watch how these galaxies coalesced over time and formed the familiar spiral disk we see today, thanks to a new set of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image shows the gas disc in a computer simulation of a Milky Way-like galaxy from the Auriga suite. Colours represent the ...

For centuries, scientists have puzzled over globular clusters, the dense star systems that orbit galaxies without dark matter. Using ultra-detailed simulations, researchers recreated their origins and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The oldest stars in the Milky Way provide information about the age of the universe. (CREDIT: Elena Tomasetti) The oldest stars in ...

Near the center of the Milky Way, a star is racing around Sagittarius A* at speeds reaching 25 000 km/s. Named S301, it is ...

Roughly 115 million light-years away, in a faint, diffuse galaxy cataloged as UGC9050-Dw1, astronomers have identified a ...

This month, you'll have twice the chances to view a meteor shower and your last chance of the year to see the core of the ...

Inside-out growth and stellar migration in the Milky Way: Inside the star-forming disc (within ~12 kpc), abundant cold gas fuels continuous star formation, producing young stars. Beyond this break ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds clues about when it formed and what the galaxy was like at the time. Over ...