The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic home gives us exclusive insight into its components, but it also hinders our ...

The PIGS survey sought out—and found—a group of metal-poor stars staying close to the galaxy’s core. Reading time 2 minutes An artist’s impression of the distribution of ancient stars near the ...

Supernovae, or exploding stars, play a critical role in the formation and evolution of galaxies. However, key aspects of these phenomena are notoriously difficult to simulate accurately in reasonably ...

The Cigar Galaxy (also known as M82) is famous for its extraordinary speed in making new stars, with stars being born 10 times faster than in the Milky Way. Now, data from the Stratospheric ...

It's difficult to determine the shape of our galaxy. So difficult that only in the last century did we learn that the Milky Way is just one galaxy among billions. So it's not surprising that despite ...

Space tends to reward expectations. Young galaxies should spin. Gas falls in, gravity takes hold, angular momentum builds, and the whole system settles into motion. That is why one faraway object ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Scientists working at NASA recently made an important and striking discovery that could teach humanity a lot about the evolution of galaxies. According to a new report by NASA's ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a huge river of primordial hydrogen flowing from the neighboring Magellanic Clouds into our own Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have discovered the first evidence of turbulence and ...

Galactic chemical evolution (GCE) describes the changing composition of galaxies over cosmic time as successive generations of stars forge new elements and redistribute them into the interstellar ...