New mapping of the Milky Way has uncovered a vast family tree of stellar siblings, revealing that hundreds of star clusters ...

According to ESA’s reporting on the study, the wave behaves like ripples expanding from a stone dropped into water, though in ...

For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by Sagittarius A*, a black hole so massive that its gravity can stretch, tear, and ...

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

Astronomers have uncovered more than 400 pairs of star clusters in our Milky Way—cosmic siblings that were born together or ...

Using artificial intelligence, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...

"Asteroseismology with Roman is possible because we don't need to ask the telescope to do anything it wasn't already planning to do." ...

A research team in Japan has created a groundbreaking Milky Way simulation that follows more than 100 billion stars with a level of detail that was once thought impossible.

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...