Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

The discovery, documented in a new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, is the latest ...

A colossal wave is rolling through the Milky Way’s stars, mapped by ESA’s Gaia telescope and reshaping our understanding of ...

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For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

The Milky Way ripples like a vast cosmic wave. Gaia’s precise measurements reveal a colossal motion sweeping through the ...

Astronomers have caught a blast of hot wind streaming from the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sgr A*, for the first time ...

New research from Johns Hopkins University and an international team of scientists suggests that two competing theories for ...

A data visualization of the motions of galaxies in structures called basins of attraction. The Milky Way is the red dot. Credit: University of Hawai'i If you want to pinpoint your place in the ...

Astronomers have identified what could be the largest structure ever observed in the known universe—a vast network of galaxy clusters and superclusters containing an astonishing 200 quadrillion solar ...

What can the gamma ray light emitted by the Milky Way Galaxy teach scientists about the existence of dark matter? This is ...

The study employed a technique the researchers call 'pattern matching', using Cepheid variable stars to effectively anchor the distances of the gas on the outer edges of the galaxy's spiral arms for ...