New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

Galaxy Alaknanda challenges long-held theories of galaxy formation, which maintained that stable spiral galaxies could only ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds ...

A team from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) has published a paper that reveals ...

Our solar system is on the move, traveling at 828,000 km/h through a galactic structure most people don't know exists. This ...

Intermediate mass black holes (IMBH), if they exist, have between about 100 and 1,000 solar masses, placing them in between ...

Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of our galaxy might be more suitable for life than others ...

Scientists believe that the universe on very large scales is made of a network-like distribution of galaxies, gas and dark ...

"It’s kind of a jigsaw puzzle where all the different pieces are moving." ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...