If you thought the Milky Way was grandiose in size, Quipu takes center stage right away. Quipu is the nickname for an immense ...

In recent groundbreaking research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the ...

The impending merger of the two galaxies hints at what might be in store for the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy if and ...

The Milky Way, along with its neighboring galaxies, appears to be moving toward the Shapley Concentration. But this discovery also challenges our current models of the universe.

Astronomers at Leiden University have detected rare isotopes of carbon and oxygen in our neighboring stars for the first time ...

A galaxy in the early universe was rich with oxygen, astronomers have found. The discovery raises questions about how early ...

Ursa Major III/Unions 1 (UMa3/U1), the faintest known satellite of our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more ...

MIT astronomers discovered three of the oldest stars in the universe, hidden in the Milky Way’s "halo." These stars are thought to have formed between 12 and 13 billion years ago.

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, according to new research. Cosmologists at Durham University used a new ...

An MIT astronomy class has found three of the oldest stars in the universe lurking right outside the Milky Way. The stars, about 30,000 light-years from Earth, are in the galaxy's "halo," the ...

Next, the researchers plan on looking for more SASS stars and UFDs. From the 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, the students are hopeful they will find more of the universe’s oldest stars.

Observations also showed other galaxies are moving away from our Milky Way faster. But scientists cannot yet figure out why, so all they're saying for now is that something bizarre is underway.