The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, each following its own evolutionary path through birth, life, and ...

Never-before-seen details of the Milky Way's spiral arms have been revealed through chemical mapping. This pioneering technique, called chemical cartography, has unveiled new regions of our galaxy's ...

The clashing galaxies NGC 4568 (bottom) and NGC 4567 (top) as seen by the Gemini North telescope in Hawai‘i A 100-year-old mystery surrounding the "shape-shifting" nature of some galaxies has been ...

Astrophysicists have always dreamed of running a simulation of the Milky Way that could track every single star—each orbit, ...

A century-old mystery of how galaxies change shapes has been solved by considering 'survival of the fittest' collisions between cosmic titans. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

St. Louis, Mo. — For decades, astronomers have been blind to what our galaxy, the Milky Way, really looks like. After all, we sit in the midst of it and can’t step outside for a bird’s eye view. Now, ...

The method overcomes the challenges of dust that block the view of some of the Milky Way's stars. Hawkins’ model superimposed over a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory illustration of the Milky Way. Red ...

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

ESO astronomers have used the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope to capture an image of NGC 6744. This impressive spiral galaxy lies about 30 million light-years away in the southern ...

It looks like a tiny galaxy, but it's just one big star. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As if cracking open a cosmic Russian ...

Mighty forces beyond the solar system billions of years ago might have shaped much of the land beneath our feet today. A study recently published in the journal Geology proposes that Earth’s ...

In a bizarre geological twist of fate, researchers report that the very continents on which we humans call home were likely a byproduct of four-billion-year-old giant Earth impactors incredibly ...