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

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

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

"Baby star clusters" are aggregates of very young stars in the early stages of formation. Distinguished by their recent birth ...

A groundbreaking study in galactic archaeology proves the Sun made a treacherous journey to reach its current home in the ...

New research suggests our Sun was part of a huge migration of Sun-like stars that moved away from the Milky Way’s center billions of years ago.

The Sun orbits in the thin disk of the Milky Way. It's located 27,000 light-years (8.3 kiloparsecs) from the Galactic Center, on the inner edge of the Orion spiral arm. It orbits around the galaxy ...

Chinese astronomers have found a pair of young star clusters formed within a circumgalactic high-velocity cloud on the ...

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

T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just ...

Discovered in the Pictor II dwarf galaxy, star PicII-503 has an extreme deficiency in iron—less than 1/40,000th of the sun. This signature makes it the clearest example of a star within a primordial ...

As interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest approach to gas giant Jupiter, a team of astronomers has concluded it may be even older than we thought. By analysing its chemical composition, they ...