The newly-discovered dark dwarf galaxy Antlia 2’s collision with the Milky Way may be responsible for our galaxy’s characteristic ripples in its outer disc, according to a study led by Rochester ...

The ratio of a star’s age to its metal content ties it to a characteristic birthplace within the disk.

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

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

Astronomers have achieved a breakthrough in star formation research with the detection of protostellar jets in the outer regions of the Milky Way, a finding recently published in The Astrophysical ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artistic representation of the Milky Way, where the innermost stars move at near relativistic speeds (defined as velocities that ...

A team of researchers has obtained conclusive evidence placing the Sun, approximately 4.6 billion years ago, as part of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A near-infrared view of the stars near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. - ESO / S. Gillessen et al. Astronomers suspect the ...

Direction of Object 1 and 2 (solid yellow line). The green squares represent their possible locations based on the kinematic distance estimates (see Section 4.3 and 4.4). The background is an artist's ...