When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the ...

Researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist, who looked deeply into space at a period known as ...

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op ...

The billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, should appear especially vibrant in May 2025 as the band ...

A prominent museum in New York City has introduced an innovative space-themed show that invites visitors to delve into the ...

A study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics has identified four previously unknown primordial open cluster (OC) groups in ...

Billions of stars that make up the Milky Way are at peak visibility to the naked eye in the US – but not for long. The large ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Astronomers have detected in the stellar halo that represents the Milky Way's outer limits a group of stars more distant from Earth than any known within our own ...

Rather than being flat as a Frisbee, the Milky Way’s star-studded disk is twisted and warped, according to a new three-dimensional map of our home galaxy. If viewed from the side, the spiral ...

Unlike the Sun, these newfound stars do not reside in the Milky Way’s familiar thin disk, which is about 100,000 light-years across and home to most of our galaxy’s young stars. Instead ...

Astronomers have detected, in the stellar halo that represents the Milky Way’s outer limits, a group of stars more distant from Earth than any known within our own galaxy – almost halfway to a ...