Billions of stars that make up the Milky Way are at peak visibility to the naked eye in the US – but not for long. The large ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the ...

A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the ...

Meanwhile, the stellar core condenses into either a neutron star or black hole. Modern neutron stars and black holes formed in the Milky Way are easier to spot because they stay within our galaxy ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like ...

Using Gaia data, scientists found that these collisions triggered periods of intense star formation in the Milky Way and may even have something to do with the galaxy's trademark spiral shape.

Peissker described the new findings as an "amazing" development in mapping out the evolution of the Milky Way. This chart shows ... the centre of our galaxy. It is the first star pair ever found ...

A star positioned near the center of the Milky Way seems to have come from outside of our galaxy. The interloper is thought to have traveled from a galaxy that has since disappeared. The star ...

In contrast, many galaxies, including most of the ones that orbit the Milky Way, make no new stars at all. “The star formation rate is very important to understand for galaxy evolution,” says ...

Astronomers have now found that a star right near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way likely originated in a smaller galaxy that ours devoured. The Milky Way is home to more ...