For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

The Milky Way has just been reconstructed in unprecedented detail, with artificial intelligence helping astronomers track the ...

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

When we think about orbits, we usually picture the Earth zooming around the sun. But does the sun just sit there? Or is it on its own journey? I asked my friend Guy Worthey. He’s a space scientist at ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The area of stars sampled by new Gaia mission data. Our sun is located in the middle of the ...

"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 ...

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 ...

The current rate of star formation at the Galactic Center appears to be lower than in the rest of the Galaxy. A new study led ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Falling into a black hole shouldn't be on any bucket lists, but that doesn't mean we can't wonder what it would be like if that were to ever happen. Following that same logic, NASA ...

Our status as milk-producing mammals would not be lost on intelligent aliens studying the history of our astronomy. The ancient Greeks, they would learn, described a milkiness in the night sky. And ...