A newly identified group of ancient stars suggests the Milky Way may be hiding the remnants of a previously unknown dwarf ...

The image is created using observations in six different colour bands, allowing scientists to study different features of the ...

The Milky Way may not have a sharp edge, but scientists have now found where its star-forming activity largely comes to an ...

The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles Steinhardt suspects a few pages are missing. Either the universe has been playing ...

NASA's powerful James Webb Space telescope has revealed a colorful spread of stars and cosmic dust in the Milky Way's most active star-forming region. The telescope was studying Sagittarius B2, a ...

Our sun is a bit of an outlier in the general stellar population. We typically think of stars as being solitary wanderers ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy whose asymmetric appearance may be the result of a galactic tug of war. Located 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo, the ...

This Collection features original research on the mechanisms driving star formation, the lifecycle of various stellar types, and the complex interactions between stars and their environments. The ...

Sci-fi tends to paint the edge of our galaxy as a desolate backwater, but in one early galaxy, the galactic rim is the bright, bustling center of activity, and the core is the aging backwater. The ...