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

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

For decades, astronomers have mapped the Milky Way using visible light, but much of our galaxy has remained hidden behind ...

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

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

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A mysterious red glow at the centre of the Milky Way has been detected for the first time. It shines out of an area known as the 'Tilted Disk' - and could shed light on the fundamental source of our ...

Indian scientists have discovered an ancient and massive galaxy called Alaknanda. It looks similar to our Milky Way galaxy ...

Galaxy Alaknanda challenges long-held theories of galaxy formation, which maintained that stable spiral galaxies could only ...