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 ...

The Milky Way sits in a massive underdense region, the KBC void, stretching nearly two billion light-years. Learn how this ...

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

Still in its original galaxy, a rare holdout from the second generation of stars sheds new light on the origins of the ...

It's a new window into the first star explosions.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers in Italy and Germany have turned to some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way to estimate the true age of the Universe ...

The research, led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian, shows how researchers can study the past of ...

Super galaxy clusters are among the largest structures in the universe. Now, a particularly large one has been measured, ...

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...

Surveying nearby galaxies in the process of merging with other galaxies, astronomers have identified massive, dense star factories, unlike any found in the Milky Way. The findings provide a rare ...

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 ...