Scientists have taken a fresh look at the Milky Way's mysterious gamma-ray glow using machine learning and uncovered evidence ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds clues about when it formed and what the galaxy was like at the time. Over ...

Astronomers using computer simulations have investigated whether a class of star clusters nicknamed "cosmic wallflowers" ...

In the 20th century, astronomers discovered that our silver river is just one piece of a vast island of stars, and they penned their own galactic origin story. In the simplest telling, it held that ...

A new machine-learning analysis has reopened the debate over a mysterious gamma-ray glow at the center of the Milky Way. By ...

As a galactic archaeologist, my job is to reconstruct the past of our galaxy – and read the signs of its future.

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The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic home gives us exclusive insight into its components, but it also hinders our ...