The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

A fully formed spiral galaxy from when the Universe was only 1.5 billion years old was found by Indian scientists using ...

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

Scientists once thought the early universe didn't make them.

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy from cosmic dawn is rewriting ideas about how fast the Universe built its first galaxies.

Taken together, these studies illustrate that the Milky Way’s spiral arms are not just smooth arcs of stars, but dynamic, ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

A new study using Auriga simulations explains the Milky Way’s chemical bimodality. Stars split into magnesium-rich and iron-rich sequences, revealing multiple evolutionary paths shaping our galaxy.

Star chemistry reveals two spiral arms and a faint bridge in the Milky Way, offering a clearer view of hidden structure in ...

Observations of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, collected by the James Webb Space ...