Astronomers discovered dozens of stellar streams in the Milky Way using Gaia data, offering new clues about galaxy formation ...

A star drifting at the outermost reaches of the Milky Way has turned out to be the most chemically pristine stellar object ...

Astronomers have identified dozens of previously hiddenstar streams in the outskirts of the Milky Way. These long, faint ...

Research findings are available online in the journal Nature Astronomy. The original story “ Pristine star reveals the dawn ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds clues about when it formed and what the galaxy was like at the time. Over ...

A group of undergraduate students stumbled into a cosmic time capsule—one of the oldest stars ever discovered—while combing ...

Astronomers have identified dozens of stellar streams in the Milky Way, offering clues about the galaxy’s structure and hidden dark matter.

The center of the Milky Way, which is referred to as "the core," is best visible beginning in June across the Northern ...

Stellar streams are trails of stars that astronomers can study to solve mysteries about the history of our Milky Way galaxy and, potentially, the dark matter that helps shape the cosmos despite ...

In a tiny, faint dwarf galaxy 150,000 light-years away, astronomers have found a star containing just 1/40,000th of the iron ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image shows the gas disc in a computer simulation of a Milky Way-like galaxy from the Auriga suite. Colours represent the ...

In the outskirts of the Milky Way, astronomers have found a myriad of faint ribbons of stars. Using a new algorithm with the ...