New maps around Sagittarius A* revealed a big clue.
Unusual stellar remnants suggest the Milky Way might have eaten a galaxy called Loki billions of years ago, according to new ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially adopted its new galactic archaeology mission, Arrakihs, set to launch by the ...
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The Milky Way may have devoured another galaxy, and astronomers think they've found its remains
Astronomers say that they have identified 20 stars that may have grown up together in a dwarf galaxy named "Loki" that eventually became part of our Milky Way.
As a galactic archaeologist, my job is to reconstruct the past of our galaxy – and read the signs of its future.
Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led by Dr. Vivian Tan, who completed her doctorate at York University under the ...
At approximately 100,000 light years in diameter, the Milky Way’s vastness and the broader, ever-changing dynamics of the cosmos defy any attempt to fully understand our home galaxy and its history.
What can the gamma ray light emitted by the Milky Way Galaxy teach scientists about the existence of dark matter? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Letters hopes to address as a ...
Astronomers discovered a rare Einstein Cross around galaxy J1453g, revealing a stellar structure similar to the Milky Way. The finding challenges current theories of how elliptical galaxies form and ...
Inside-out growth and stellar migration in the Milky Way: Inside the star-forming disc (within ~12 kpc), abundant cold gas fuels continuous star formation, producing young stars. Beyond this break ...
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