The system, named UPM J1040−3551 AabBab, is located about 82 light-years from Earth. The two pairs—the brown dwarfs and the ...

Astronomers using the Gaia space telescope have located two ancient streams of stars that helped the Milky Way galaxy grow and evolve more than 12 billion years ago.

A recent discovery of a magnetic halo surrounding the Milky Way galaxy could significantly alter our understanding of galactic evolution. Researchers from the National Institute for Astrophysics ...

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope and other telescopes a fossilised remnant of the early Milky Way harboring stars of hugely different ages has been revealed by an international team of ...

Astronomers say they have now discovered the ancient Milky Way core from when our galaxy was still new to the universe.

(CNN) — Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it could change our understanding of how galaxies form. The ...

European astronomers, including a scientist from Cardiff University, have discovered the largest known star cluster in the Milky Way. The super star cluster known as ‘Westerlund 1’ is made up ...

Astrophysicists investigating the origins of the Milky Way may have discovered our galaxy’s ‘old heart’ — the original, ancient nucleus around which all of its stars and planets grew. The ...

Astrophysicists investigating the origins of the Milky Way may have discovered our galaxy’s ‘old heart’ — the original, ancient nucleus around which all of its stars and planets grew. The ...

(CNN) — Astronomers have used the Gaia space telescope to spy some of the first building blocks of the Milky Way galaxy: two ancient streams of stars named Shakti and Shiva that helped our home ...