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

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. [Gaia spacecraft: Mapping the ...

James Webb Space Telescope uncovers Alaknanda, a massive spiral galaxy we are seeing as it existed 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. This perfectly formed cosmic marvel defies everything we ...

Indian astronomers have identified a surprisingly mature, Milky Way-like galaxy from the universe’s early era. Named ...

Galaxies like our Milky Way grew through cascading mergers of smaller galaxies that began billions of years ago. The ancient ...

The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, each following its own evolutionary path through birth, life, and ...

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The evidence is a stream of gas called the ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

Using artificial intelligence, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, ...

It spans somewhere between 30,000 and 65,000 light-years from the center.

A team of astronomers studying the distribution of galaxies in nearby space has discovered something truly extraordinary: a ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, the third visitor of its kind, has sparked controversy. Explore its hyperbolic orbit, unique ...