For generations, astronomers have pondered the origins of globular clusters, which are among the universe’s oldest and ...

For centuries, scientists have puzzled over globular clusters, the dense star systems that orbit galaxies without dark matter ...

Gaia mapped billions of stars and revealed hidden connections in the Milky Way, reshaping how we understand our galaxy.

Spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are generally characterized by their flat structure, but the ThrUMMS team has uncovered a wave-like pattern in the distribution of cold gas throughout the galaxy.

Astronomers have unveiled a groundbreaking 3D map of the Milky Way's cold gas clouds, providing unprecedented insights into the Galaxy's intricate structures. This study, led by Peter Barnes of the ...

UAH researchers, led by Dr. Chakrabarti, have used pulsars to detect dark matter sub-halos in the Milky Way for the first ...

The Pawnee Star Chart is a series of crosses sprinkled around an oval piece of elk skin. Likely made in the early 17th ...

Responding to the question "How do we take pictures of the Milky Way if we are in it?", science communicator and former NASA ...

S284p1 sits at the edge of the Milky Way about 15,000 light-years from Earth. As superheated gas falls onto the star, it gets ...

In a preprint released in August 2025, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics reported a newly identified ...

High in the Milky Way, a dying giant has thrown astronomers a cosmic curveball. A star known as DFK 52, sitting in the ...