Astronomers have determined that VVV CL001, a metal-poor globular cluster near the center of the Milky Way, is about 13.4 ...

Somewhere in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, about twenty-five thousand light-years away, sits the anchor of ...

A new study claims that the VVV CL001 cluster is around 13.4 billion years old, which could make it the oldest star cluster ...

A figure in red trudges across a blanket of white. Snow squeaks under the scientist's feet, too dry to be slick or soft. Only ...

A Spanish-led team dated stars with Gaia and found the galactic disk formed in two stages, a puffy turbulent one and then a ...

In October 2025, an object discovered by JWST as part of the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey garnered ...

The Milky Way's disc thinned in two stages at different rates. The precise age of the stars reveals the timing of this transition and how it is explained.

Galactic archaeologists are using precise measures and larger sample sizes afforded by new missions to tease apart minute differences between groups of stars, revealing the history of the Milky Way ...

A new study says a proposed instrument on the Extremely Large Telescope could study star clusters around faint, puffy ...

A Hubble-based census of 37 nearby dwarf galaxies finds they hold on average just 11% of the oxygen their own stars forged, and as little as 4%. Supernova winds ...

Crowded star clusters in the early Universe could have built giant stars, seeded black holes and fed the mysterious little ...

Rubin Observatory has spotted a distant world beyond Pluto as its decade-long survey begins revealing the hidden solar system ...