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

Fresh starts ask for thoughtful, gentle choices. As romantic Venus squares expansive Jupiter, they kick off the beginning of ...

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

After a new upgrade, a neutrino observatory in Antarctica may identify dormant supermassive black holes within our galaxy.

How old is the universe? Scientists have long tried to answer this question, but different measurement methods have produced conflicting results. Now, researchers from the University of Bologna and ...

You can get a great view of the Milky Way at night by just looking up. The Milky Way is generally visible all year from sunset to sunrise. The Milky Way will appear as a faint, milky band of light ...

This map is part of ACES — the ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey — a project designed to understand how gas condenses into stars in the extreme and chaotic environment at the heart of our galaxy. The survey ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...