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 ...

Earth is not only orbiting the Sun it is also traveling through the Milky Way on an enormous galactic journey. In this video ...

Astronomers have discovered a flattened structure of matter around the Milky Way that explains the unusual motion of nearby galaxies.

Two new studies have measured the expansion of the universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that ...

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 ...

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, scientists have found. The discovery, made in two separate pieces of research, could relieve one of the most troubling ...

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and planets are formed.

Astronomers said in a statement that the enormous concentration of galaxies had long remained largely hidden behind dense ...

Our sun was born 4.6 billion years ago near the crowded center of the Milky Way and then migrated roughly 10,000 light-years ...

Astronomers wonder why there aren't more stars.

Astronomers from UCT have uncovered the true scale of one of the largest hidden structures in the nearby Universe.