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Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

Massive stars like these are also key players in the cosmic drama of gravitational waves, the ripples in space-time first ...

New evidence suggests that a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way called Ursa Major III is actually a star cluster.

In the past decade, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behavior of ...

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Nearly every large galaxy has a supermassive ...

Astronomers identified what they believed was a lone brown dwarf orbiting a bright single star. Then they looked more closely.

Scientists said they suspect that around 10,000 of these so-called "hypervelocity" stars in the Milky Way were born in a small satellite galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The escaping star is known as a runaway. Runaway stars originating in the Milky Way are not fast enough to be hypervelocity because blue stars can't orbit close enough without the two stars merging.

Typically, binary stars whirl around one another in an oval-shaped orbit. In CPD-29 2176, one star orbits the other in a circular pattern that repeats about every 60 days.

Hubble’s latest portrait of the Tarantula Nebula reveals a turbulent star-making region far beyond the Milky Way. Located 160 ...

Scientists unveiled the discovery of the first binary star system near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The binary system, named D9, consists of ...