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

A fully formed spiral galaxy from when the Universe was only 1.5 billion years old was found by Indian scientists using ...

A new simulation released by NASA’s Ames Research Institute reveals a stunning vision of the evolution of a galaxy. Blue influx gases, white stars and red satellite galaxies are shown moving thousands ...

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

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

Indian scientists have discovered a 13.8-billion-year-old galaxy that resembles the Milky Way. The galaxy has been named ...

Indian astronomers have identified a surprisingly mature, Milky Way-like galaxy from the universe’s early era. Named ...

Indian astronomers have discovered 'Alaknanda,' a remarkably well-formed spiral galaxy, just 1.5 billion years after the Big ...

In a feat of galactic archeology, astronomers are using ever more detailed information to trace the origin of our galaxy—and to learn about how other galaxies formed in the early stages of the ...

Astronomers have spotted thousands of young stars huddled around the center of an ancient galaxy, all of which formed nearly simultaneously 4 million years ago. This observation marks the first time ...

Sci-fi tends to paint the edge of our galaxy as a desolate backwater, but in one early galaxy, the galactic rim is the bright, bustling center of activity, and the core is the aging backwater. The ...

How does galaxy location drive galaxy structure and star formation? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly ...