Using the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, an international team of astronomers has observed ...

Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using 100,000 supercomputer simulations. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Data from ESA's Gaia mission has been used to create an 3D animated view of the Milky Way galaxy's stellar nurseries. CREDIT European Space Agency (ESA) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Animation: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, S.

A rare star reveals how the Universe's first stars exploded, helping explain the Milky Way’s outer halo and its unusual chemistry.

You've never seen the candy bar like this before.

A new study suggests the Sun moved outward with many similar stars during a large Milky Way migration event long ago.

A telescope in Chile has revealed the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy ...

For the past number of years, Regina resident Lois Sugai has been the first in line for the yearly opening of Milky Way Ice Cream. Sugai lives adjacent to the ice cream shop, peaking out of her window ...

A nearby galaxy is behaving strangely—and now scientists know why. The Small Magellanic Cloud’s stars move in chaotic ...

A new image from the European Southern Observatory reveals a gas cloud orbiting the Milky Way’s central black hole, offering details on its structure and motion.

Discovered in the Pictor II dwarf galaxy, star PicII-503 has an extreme deficiency in iron—less than 1/40,000th of the sun. This signature makes it the clearest example of a star within a primordial ...

It's a new window into the first star explosions.