The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments. If some of them are about 13.6 billion years old, as a new analysis suggests, then the universe ...

Dury captured shooting stars glowing with the Milky Way from the remote Scottish Island of Skye.

Astronomers have finally identified where the Milky Way’s star-making activity fades, uncovering a long-sought boundary in ...

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 ...

In general, in disk-shaped galaxies like the Milky Way, stars form from the inside out. Therefore, the further you go from the outer edge of the observed galaxy, the younger the stars are, but the ...

Astronomers have long known that neutron stars, the crushed cores left behind after massive stars explode, should be scattered throughout the Milky Way galaxy. However, most of them are effectively ...

Protostellar jets were detected for the first time using ALMA in the Milky Way’s outer region, showing that star formation works similarly in distant, low-metallicity regions, whereas the chemistry ...