Astronomers say that they have identified 20 stars that may have grown up together in a dwarf galaxy named "Loki" that eventually became part of our Milky Way.

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds clues about when it formed and what the galaxy was like at the time. Over ...

What can the gamma ray light emitted by the Milky Way Galaxy teach scientists about the existence of dark matter? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Letters hopes to address as a ...

Unusual stellar remnants suggest the Milky Way might have eaten a galaxy called Loki billions of years ago, according to new ...

At the heart of the Milky Way's disk, a region where stars are generally young and rich in heavy elements, twenty stars stand ...

A new study suggests that some of the Universe’s earliest giant galaxies may have lived dramatic lives. They began as dusty ...

Our home galaxy has a secret buried inside. A new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests that the Milky Way swallowed an ancient dwarf galaxy billions of ...

Astronomers searching the edge of the Milky Way discovered a mysterious “dead zone” much closer to Earth than scientists ...

Inside-out growth and stellar migration in the Milky Way: Inside the star-forming disc (within ~12 kpc), abundant cold gas fuels continuous star formation, producing young stars. Beyond this break ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to make a major leap in the hunt for worlds outside our solar system, ...