First-light images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have revealed a 163,000-light-year stream of stars emanating from the ...
Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.
Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and ...
"Even though it's the first time we've seen a galaxy like this, we think that there could be many more out there." ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The dark matter distribution of a Milky Way mass halo in a Lambda-cold dark matter (LCDM) ...
The discovery highlights intense, hidden starbursts that shaped early galaxies less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
A mysterious, high-energy glow from gamma-rays in the Milky Way's center is reigniting the debate: dark matter or a hidden ...
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to discover REBELS-25, a Milky Way-like galaxy from the ...
Researchers combined deep learning with high-resolution physics to create the first Milky Way model that tracks over 100 ...
So it’s confession time: I’ve been lying to you. I’ve said on many occasions that our Milky Way galaxy has a flat disk (like ...
The galaxy, known as Y1, existed just 800 million years after the Big Bang and is forming stars 180 times faster than the ...