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 ...

Artificial intelligence helps scientists explore the intricacies of outer space. It is through AI that Japanese researchers have discovered mysterious structures in the Milky Way. These structures are ...

Both also reside in an outer part of the Milky Way galaxy. They note that either or both could be dense clouds of gas or a type of star that has not been seen before. The latter possibility seems ...

Astronomers discover more than 100 hidden black holes in a star cluster, revealing surprising movements in ancient galactic ...

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.

Let’s imagine that we could roam across the Milky Way on a sightseeing trip like no ... to what is producing weird radio signals from outer space and whether there is life beyond Earth.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...