The Milky Way was once a textbook example of how a spiral galaxy should form and evolve. Now a wave of new observations and ...

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

An international team of scientists led from the Centre for Astrobiology (CAB, CSIC-INTA), with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has used the Gran Telescopio Canarias ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds clues about when it formed and what the galaxy was like at the time. Over ...

A new study shows how Milky Way chemical tracks emerge from shifting star formation and gas supply, reshaping ideas about the ...

Astronomers used a telescope to look into the heart of our galaxy, the Milky Way, in great detail and found a surprising bit of history. The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope spied ...

In the dense, glittering heart of our galaxy, a cosmic drama is playing out that puts our own quiet solar system to shame.

The “Seven Sisters” of the Pleiades are part of a much larger complex that can help reveal our galaxy’s deep history ...

A surprising discovery that hydrogen gas clouds found in abundance in and above our Milky Way Galaxy have preferred locations has given astronomers a key clue about the origin of such clouds, which ...

Summary of the astrophysical parameters reported in this work, which in combination constrain the assembly and chemical evolution of the Milky Way. Credit: University of Notre Dame University of Notre ...

Researchers using the Gaia space telescope studied some ancient stars near the sun, revealing that our corner of the Milky Way may be billions of years older than once thought. When you purchase ...