A rare star reveals how the Universe's first stars exploded, helping explain the Milky Way’s outer halo and its unusual chemistry.

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 13.6 billion years old, as a new analysis suggests, then the universe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The oldest stars in the Milky Way provide information about the age of the universe. (CREDIT: Elena Tomasetti) The oldest stars in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers in Italy and Germany have turned to some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way to estimate the true age of the Universe ...

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

Scientists using the ALMA telescope have created the most-detailed-ever map of the Milky Way's chaotic center. The observations could open a window to the ancient universe as it appeared shortly after ...

Elena Tomasetti of the University of Bologna discusses her team's calculation of the estimated age of the universe in an exclusive interview with Starlust.

An international team of astronomers has captured the central region of the Milky Way in unprecedented detail.

Tupananchiskama: Ancient Andean Cosmovision When: From March 19 until Jan. 3, 2027 Where: Museum of Anthropology at UBC Info: ...

Scientists have captured the most complete, high-resolution map of the cold gas at the center of the Milky Way, which contains the raw material from which stars and planets are made. Information from ...

Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to anchor our galaxy, explaining both the blistering speeds of stars near the ...