Astronomers have determined that VVV CL001, a metal-poor globular cluster near the center of the Milky Way, is about 13.4 billion years old, making it one of the oldest known star clusters in our ...
Hubble has released a new image of Messier 30, known as M30, a globular cluster about 27,500 light-years away in the constellation Capricornus. NASA published the picture on Nov. 5 alongside a note ...
Simulations suggest the faintest galaxies near the Milky Way share one iron level because a single giant first star exploded in each.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has already uncovered two previously unknown companions of the Milky Way using preliminary observations covering just 7% of the night sky. The discoveries include an ...
WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with a ...
The Milky Way is home to hundreds of billions of stars arranged in a glorious spiral pattern. But beyond the obvious spiral, ...
For decades, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form. But three new studies raise questions about whether the Milky Way is truly representative of other ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression depicts the Milky Way based on data from the Gaia telescope. - ESA/Gaia/DPAC, S. Payne-Wardenaa An unusual ...
"Become an even smaller baby."That one sentence started the story of the universe with baby Sol.In parts ①〜③, we traced the ...
The SAGA Survey just published three new research articles that provide us with new insights into the uniqueness of our own Milky Way Galaxy after completing the census of 101 satellite systems ...
This article was originally featured on The Conversation. A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical ...
On Sunday, November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of The New York Times would have found an intriguing article, amid several large adverts for fur coats. The headline ...