New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way.

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

Astronomers uncover a young galaxy similar to the Milky Way, shedding light on its early formation just 600 million years ...

The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.

Astronomers have observed a binary star system orbiting near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), published Tuesday in ...

Scientists have linked supernovae to the heating of the Milky Way's outer gas layer, revealing a cosmic dance of creation and destruction that shapes our galactic environment. Scientists may have unco ...

Atoms forged in stars take a gigantic meandering path before they become incorporated into a future generation of stars and ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy ... while attempting to research whether there was any interference ...

The research team identified at least 10 individual star clusters within Firefly Sparkle, each with unique properties, ...

Since the galaxy looks like a "sparkle" or swarm of fireflies on a warm summer night, they named it the Firefly Sparkle galaxy. The research team ... the fully formed Milky Way is about 100,000 ...

“There is so much going on inside this tiny galaxy, including so many different phases of star formation.” The research team ... The fully formed Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years across ...