The Milky Way contains hundreds of millions of stars, but not all of them are native to our galaxy. Astronomers have now found stars in our home galaxy that formed outside our family of stars. Using ...
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...
New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...
Indian astronomers have identified a surprisingly mature, Milky Way-like galaxy from the universe’s early era. Named ...
Do the building blocks of life exist beyond the Milky Way, and can we identify them? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an international ...
New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...
The search for intelligent life in our galaxy is shifting from abstract speculation to detailed cartography, as researchers ...
Fireworks aren't the only thing illuminating the sky this month. July also presents the opportunity to catch a cosmic light show, when the Milky Way galaxy appears in the night sky. According to NASA, ...
An invisible monster lurks beyond the stars of the constellation Sagittarius near the border with Scorpius: a supermassive black hole, designated as Sagittarius A* (pronounced “Sagittarius A-star”), ...
Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, with the help of the world’s most powerful telescope, ventures through the Milky Way and into the universe beyond, on the hunt for alien worlds.