New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will map the Milky Way using infrared observations, studying star formation, stellar evolution, star clusters, and hidden galactic structures over a two-year survey.

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds ...

Star chemistry reveals two spiral arms and a faint bridge in the Milky Way, offering a clearer view of hidden structure in ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

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

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

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...