A peculiar cluster of stars swirling around the violent center of the Milky Way could become "immortal" by continuously capturing and destroying dark matter particles in their cores, a new study ...

A research team may have discovered a star with an exoplanet that is so fast that both will leave the Milky Way. A group of astronomers may have discovered a planetary system that races through ...

the Milky Way can give you a general idea of the north-south axis. However, more precise navigational tools, such as Polaris, are more beneficial.Navigating by the stars requires practice and ...

This discovery now allows astronomers to witness the birth of a super star cluster in our neighboring galaxy. The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, is located nearly 160,000 light ...

"It marks an exciting step forward in our understanding of dark matter and the dynamics of the Milky Way." A perplexing "break" in a stream of stars around the Milky Way could be the result of ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now ...

Scientists discovered the star SMSS1605-1443 in 2018. Upon discovery, they determined that it was perhaps one of the Milky Way’s oldest stars based on its chemical composition. However ...

In November the Milky Way arches high across the mid-evening sky from east to west. At its eastern end, winter constellations ...

The study measured where and how fast 77 of Andromeda’s compact star clusters—called globular clusters—are moving to work out where they came from. Even when the Milky Way and Andromeda ...