Billions of years ago, a young spiral galaxy began to grow in a crowded part of the universe. It pulled in gas and small ...

New observations and simulations by a research team led by MPE show that a massive binary star near the center of our Galaxy ...

The Whirlpool Galaxy sprawls across the cosmos in this striking new snapshot from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

From this vantage point looking at the Milky Way from its edge, the galactic bulge might appear as a glowing orb of stars, ...

The Milky Way's galactic bulge, the bulbous region that surrounds the galactic center, contains a dense collection of stars, planets, and other free-floating objects. This region has been studied for ...

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...

This discovery of ancient stars provides insights into the chaotic evolution of the early Milky Way.