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

Astronomers at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) discovered for the first time that the hot gas in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning in the ...

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

Editor's note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. (CNN) — Researchers have discovered a ...

Observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope showed that more galaxies rotate in one direction than the other. According to one researcher, this could mean that the universe is actually inside ...

An high resolution image is available at http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2008/phot-30-08.html Pulsating stars enable a new precise determination of ...

Two French researchers, Alain Blanchard and Even Coquery, may have found a way to distinguish between the theory of dark matter and the MOND theory in explaining the universe of galaxies revealed by ...

Magnetic fields in the halo of the Milky Way have a toroidal structure, extending in the radius range of 6000 light-year to 50,000 light-year from the Galaxy center. The Sun is at about 30,000 ...

The Milky Way galaxy, comprised of billions of stars, will be visible in the night sky until the end of May, particularly between the last quarter moon (May 20) and the new moon (May 30). Light ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

On a hill where Aztec priests once studied the stars, President Manuel Avila Camacho of Mexico dedicated a great modern observatory. Tonanzintla, near Puebla, 70 miles southeast of Mexico City, was ...

(CNN) — Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it could change our understanding of how galaxies form. The galaxy, ...