Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

A fully formed spiral galaxy from when the Universe was only 1.5 billion years old was found by Indian scientists using ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy from cosmic dawn is rewriting ideas about how fast the Universe built its first galaxies.

The Milky Way is not the calm, flat starry disk many of us learned about in school. Astronomers are now tracking a colossal, ...

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A new study using Auriga simulations explains the Milky Way’s chemical bimodality. Stars split into magnesium-rich and iron-rich sequences, revealing multiple evolutionary paths shaping our galaxy.

“Observing the Galaxy is like standing in the middle of a brightly lit city at night. If you look toward the outskirts, the ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...