The Gaia telescope spotted more than 6,000 sunlike stars, all of which appear to have migrated from the galaxy's center more ...

Our Sun is actually a cosmic refugee. Around 4.6 billion years ago, it first ignited in a hostile, radiation-blasted neighborhood 10,000 light-years closer to the Milky Way’s center than it is now.

A sweeping new ALMA image has peeled back the veil on the Milky Way’s core, exposing a dense network of cold gas filaments ...

A striking new image of our Milky Way's center, captured by the European Southern Observatory's ALMA, spans more than 650 light-years.

New ALMA observations reveal a complex network of gas filaments in the Milky Way’s central 650 light-years, enabling detailed studies of star formation in extreme galactic conditions.

Over 4 billion years ago, as planets were coalescing around the newborn Sun, our star may have gone on an epic road trip across the Milky Way along with thousands of stellar "twins." And we may owe ...

Astronomers have found that both the core of our Milky Way and the earliest proto-galaxies in the universe share a surprising ...

Astronomers used RR Lyrae stars to trace the early Milky Way, revealing a rapid formation of its halo and disk, with chemical patterns similar to Andromeda.

ESA’s Gaia mission has made a major breakthrough in unraveling the formation history of the Milky Way. Instead of forming alone, our galaxy merged with another large galaxy early in its life, around ...

Astronomers have gained a fresh understanding of the Milky Way’s formation following an analysis of nearly a quarter of a million stars among the many billions that make up our home galaxy. The ...

Huge bubbles of plasma billowing out from the Milky Way’s center might contain scraps from all over the galaxy — and beyond. A new look at gas clouds in the galaxy’s Fermi bubbles shows that the ...