An international team of astronomers has captured the central region of the Milky Way in unprecedented detail.

A new study suggests the Sun moved outward with many similar stars during a large Milky Way migration event long ago.

A groundbreaking study in galactic archaeology proves the Sun made a treacherous journey to reach its current home in the ...

Astronomers studying the Milky Way's oldest stars have estimated that the Universe is about 13.6 billion years old.

The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments. If some of them are about ...

Learn more about the incredibly detailed image of the Milky Way and what researchers can learn from it.

A sweeping new ALMA image has peeled back the veil on the Milky Way’s core, exposing a dense network of cold gas filaments ...

For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by its gravity. New simulations reveal the answer: our galaxy sits in a ...

Milky Way season is here and Alabama’s dark skies are ready to reveal the galaxy’s glittering core. Here's when and how to ...

Instead of focusing on how fast the universe is expanding, they looked at the ages of some of the oldest stars in our galaxy.