The Milky Way could be flinging stars into its outer halo – a movement triggered by powerful supernova explosions. Supernovas occur when stars explode and lose most of their mass. Clusters of ...

A groundbreaking study led by Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, in collaboration with Dr. Peter Craig, has introduced a more precise ...

Astronomers reveal a new map of the Milky Way, showing a clumpy gas structure in its outer disk. The discovery reshapes how ...

Team members added that the relative scarcity of metals in the Milky Way's outer disk could also be explained by a number of different scenarios. For instance, our galaxy might have swallowed a ...

Webb's imagery has enabled scientists to better study star formation in the outer Milky Way. A team of NASA astronomers recently pointed the spacefaring telescope toward the outskirts of our own ...

“In many analyses of the Milky Way halo, its outer boundary is a fundamental constraint,” the researchers write in their paper. “Often, the choice is subjective, but as we have ...

If true, the new findings could also mean that the Milky Way is not part of Laniākea and that the heavenly supercluster might not even exist. Instead, it could just be an outer section of the ...

Astronomers released new images this week of the Milky Way that offer an unprecedented ... 21,400 individual exposures during the latest outer-space survey, according to the federal agency.

The James Webb Space Telescope can see distant galaxies and objects within our own Milky Way. Its primary focus has recently shifted to the extreme outer regions of our galaxy, according to Space.com.

For the first time, astronomers have imaged a star located outside the Milky Way galaxy. The subject ... end of their life cycle as they shed their outer layers in preparation for an explosive ...

The element is produced only in supernovas. But there’s not a lot of material in the outer Milky Way, so it’s hard to build stars big enough to end their lives in massive, element-spewing ...

Astronomers have been able to look at the sun and a handful of other stars in the Milky Way up close ... Like other red giants, it has shed outer layers of gas and dust. Curiously, the star ...