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

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

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

You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round trip on a cosmic conveyer belt.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The research team identified at least 10 individual star clusters within Firefly Sparkle, each with unique properties, suggesting that they have not yet been mixed together, like the jumbled-up stars ...

New images show a galaxy forming that is similar to what our Milky Way’s mass might have been ... different phases of star formation.” The research team modelled what the galaxy might have ...

“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 ...