It can be hard to get your head around the fact that Earth is moving through space. But it is even stranger to realize that you are making two simultaneous journeys — around the sun and through the ...

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

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

Researchers using the Gaia space telescope studied some ancient stars near the sun, revealing that our corner of the Milky Way may be billions of years older than once thought. When you purchase ...

"Clusters rich in red supergiants are very rare and tend to be very far away, but they play a crucial role in understanding key aspects in the evolution of massive stars." When you purchase through ...

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

A long-standing scientific belief holds that stars tend to hang out in the same general part of a galaxy where they originally formed. Some astrophysicists have recently questioned whether that is ...

In the career of an astronomer, it’s hard to overstate the scale of a recent find by a team at Chile’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). Pasquale Panuzzo, a research engineer and lead author of the team’s ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Jun 30, 2020, 06:52am EDT Jun 30, 2020, 06:52am EDT This ...

A group of citizen scientists has discovered 95 "cool worlds" near the sun, celestial objects much larger than planets but lighter than stars, known as brown dwarfs, according to a new study. The ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two ...