An object inside our galaxy is moving so fast that it is on track to break free of the Milky Way altogether, racing through ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has upended expectations again, revealing a massive spiral galaxy in the universe’s infancy ...

Scientists once thought the early universe didn't make them.

The new study reports the detection of a mysterious halo-like glow of gamma rays around the Milky Way, peaking sharply at ...

Instead of limiting methods that rely on stellar positioning or gas distribution alone, an international team utilized the ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

Using artificial intelligence, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy from cosmic dawn is rewriting ideas about how fast the Universe built its first galaxies.

A scientist analyzing Fermi telescope data found a strange glow around the Milky Way that looks like it could be coming from ...

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

"It's possible we will see the new data and confirm one theory over the other — or maybe we'll find nothing, in which case it'll be an even greater mystery to resolve." The century-old mystery of dark ...