The heart of our Galaxy displays a paradox that intrigues astronomers. While this region concentrates immense quantities of ...

At approximately 100,000 light years in diameter, the Milky Way’s vastness and the broader, ever-changing dynamics of the cosmos defy any attempt to fully understand our home galaxy and its history.

Reproducing the Milky Way star by star posed a major challenge for scientists, due to computational limitations imposed by ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with a straight ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Scientists working at NASA recently made an important and striking discovery that could teach humanity a lot about the evolution of galaxies. According to a new report by NASA's ...

Stars usually form in clusters, which can also form in pairs or groups. Binary clusters (BCs) are defined as pairs of open ...

A handful of new stars are born each year in the Milky Way, while many more blink on across the universe. But astronomers have observed that galaxies should be churning out millions more stars, based ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence about the properties of the giant bubbles of high-energy gas that extend far above and below the Milky Way galaxy's center. Astronomers have revealed new ...

The Milky Way will have the fuel to continue forming stars, thanks to massive clouds of ionized gas raining down from its halo and intergalactic space. This is the conclusion of a new study by Nicolas ...