A survey of 700,000 stars at the Milky Way's center suggests an outburst of star-forming activity 1 billion years ago. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that.

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Astrophysicists have recently discovered something that has left them completely baffled. Something is causing massive bullet ...

Astronomers have identified RR Lyrae stars extending up to 1 million light-years from the Milky Way's core, significantly expanding the observed boundary of its outer halo. These RR Lyrae stars ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. When will the Milky Way collide with the Andromeda Galaxy?

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

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A huge black hole has been discovered on the other side of the galaxy. It's so massive, scientists say it shouldn't even be possible. In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, Chinese ...

The Milky Way is a self-gravitating system primarily focused on converting interstellar gas into new stars, with the rate of star formation directly related to gas density, consistent with the ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy from cosmic dawn is rewriting ideas about how fast the Universe built its first galaxies.

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...