How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

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

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The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

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

American space agency NASA announced the first major science program for the Nancy Grace Roman telescope, aside from the ...

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.

What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...