New research suggests that dark matter may be the key to uncovering the mysteries of the Milky Way. The scientific team led ...

Created using data from two extensive surveys, this spectacular radio image of the galactic plane of the Milky Way provides ...

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"No low-frequency radio image of the entire Southern Galactic Plane has been published before, making this an exciting ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed radio-colour map of the Milky Way, revealing tens of thousands of sources and ...

ESA’s Gaia mission has made a major breakthrough in unraveling the formation history of the Milky Way. Instead of forming alone, our galaxy merged with another large galaxy early in its life, around ...

Researchers using new simulations suggest that the Milky Way’s past collisions may have reshaped its dark matter core. This ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now think ...

A handful of extremely massive stars, each heavier than 1,000 Suns, may have sculpted the chemistry of the oldest star ...

LIVERMORE, Calif. — An astronomer from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in collaboration with an international team of researchers, have discovered that a neighboring galaxy — the Large ...

A fantastic new discovery has given astronomy an unexpected window into the formation of life-precursor molecules in an ...