Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the ...

Astronomers have identified a star called PicII-503 inside the ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Pictor II, and its chemical ...

As interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest approach to gas giant Jupiter, a team of astronomers has concluded it may be ...

T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University ...

Chinese astronomers have identified a pair of young, blue "baby star clusters" on the outskirts of the Milky Way, approximately 45,000 light-years from Earth. They have named the twin clusters Emei-1 ...

Discovered in the Pictor II dwarf galaxy, star PicII-503 has an extreme deficiency in iron—less than 1/40,000th of the sun.

Still in its original galaxy, a rare holdout from the second generation of stars sheds new light on the origins of the ...

Spread the loveThe cosmos has always fascinated astronomers and researchers, revealing secrets about the origins and behaviors of stars. Recently, a groundbreaking study has shed light on the early ...

A new study suggests the Sun moved outward with many similar stars during a large Milky Way migration event long ago.

Chinese astronomers have found a pair of young star clusters formed within a circumgalactic high-velocity cloud on the outskirts of the Milky Way—the first direct evidence of star formation in such an ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that our Sun may have traveled across the Milky Way as part of a massive migration of ...