Astronomers have found the boundary of star formation in the Milky Way's spiral disk — and it's not as far out from the ...

The properties of faint dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way can reveal a lot about the conditions of the early universe, the ...

May’s night skies turn the skywatcher’s gaze away from the dazzling brilliance of the Milky Way and toward grand walls, ...

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies—tiny satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way—have long been seen as cosmic fossils. Now, a new ...

Where exactly is the edge of the Milky Way? That question is harder to answer than one might expect. Since we're inside the ...

A vast cosmic structure once concealed by the Milky Way has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, revealing one 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 ...

Scientists have uncovered the true boundary of the Milky Way’s star-forming region using stellar “age mapping.” They found a ...

The Andromeda galaxy lies just beyond (...OK, about 2.5 million light-years beyond) our galaxy, the Milky Way. These galaxies are more than just neighbors: They're gravitationally bound. And for the ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds clues about when it formed and what the galaxy was like at the time. Over ...

Astronomers have discovered the edge of the Milky Way’s star-forming disk, revealing that most new stars form within 40,000 ...

Throughout the many adventures of Star Trek, it's extremely rare that the Enterprise (or any other ship) leaves the Milky Way ...