A new Milky Way-like galaxy simulation has revealed that nuclear star clusters and nuclear stellar disks can form together ...

Initial mass function variation, proven by Gaia data from 110 Milky Way open clusters, may explain why JWST keeps finding ...

A description of the Milky Way and its components, including stars, dust, gas and the mysterious ‘dark matter’.

Primordial black holes may occasionally pass through white dwarf stars and trigger enormous Type Ia supernova explosions. Researchers found that these events could explain chemical patterns seen in ...

Cosmic vision: an artist’s impression of the Milky Way seen through neutrinos. (Courtesy: IceCube Collaboration/US National Science Foundation (Lily Le & Shawn Johnson)/ESO (S Brunier)) High-energy ...

The Milky Way Galaxy is made visible through emissions of optical frequencies of electromagnetic radiation – fleeting to the naked eye before – this magical phenomenon has now been captured in a new ...

The Milky Way and Andromeda have appeared locked on a destructive course for decades. Now, thousands of simulations suggest ...

Like almost every astronomer, I have looked to the stars and dreamt of objects far larger than I can realistically comprehend. But never in my deepest daydreams have I imagined a sarcastic, ...

A new analysis of nearly a quarter million stars puts firm ages on the most momentous pages from our galaxy’s life story. Far grander than most of its neighbors, the Milky Way arose long ago, as ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — An isolated cloud larger than the Milky Way has been discovered by the research team at the University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH). The cloud, located in a “no-man’s land” for ...

There’s something strange going on with the Milky Way. Recent measurements suggest that stars at the outskirts of our galaxy are misbehaving. They’re traveling far slower than similarly situated stars ...