Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies—tiny satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way—have long been seen as cosmic fossils. Now, a new ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mapped water ice across vast regions of the galaxy, confirming that an essential molecule for life on Earth ...

Research findings are available online in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. The original story “ For the first time, ...

Astronomers have discovered the edge of the Milky Way’s star-forming disk, revealing that most new stars form within 40,000 ...

"Milky Way season," when our galaxy's bright center is most visible, is now beginning in the Northern Hemisphere. The best time to see the Milky Way in the US is generally from March to September.

New observations and simulations by a team of researchers led by MPE reveal that a massive binary star near our galaxy's ...

An international team has mapped the Milky Way’s star-forming boundary at about 35,000 to 40,000 light-years from its center using stellar age measurements and galaxy simulations. The work revealed a ...

A series of new studies have uncovered fresh insights into the Milky Way’s structure, star formation, and early history. Researchers identified a self-regulating process controlling star masses in ...

The largest 3D map of the universe, created based on data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, shows 47 million ...