For most of human history, the Milky Way has been a hazy band of light, a backdrop rather than a map. Now, by reading the chemistry of individual stars from within the disk itself, astronomers are ...

Star clusters are of great importance in any galaxy: they are the birthplace of new stars, often containing massive stars of ...

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NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

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

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

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

Multiple San Diego Fire-Rescue Department crews have been working through the night to extinguish a large fire involving hundreds of rolled and stacked hay bales.

New 3I/ATLAS images from NASA and the ESA suggest the interstellar comet is active as it approaches Earth in December.