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

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

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

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

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

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

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 ...

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

“Observing the Galaxy is like standing in the middle of a brightly lit city at night. If you look toward the outskirts, the ...

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...