The best time to view the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere is from March to September. The Milky Way, our home galaxy ...

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

In 2017, astronomers found hypervelocity stars believed to have come from the Large Magellanic Cloud, supposedly kicked out ...

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal galactic rule—it's just one of many possible evolutionary paths. By recreating ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star ...

The Milky Way is glowing in ways it should not, and the usual suspects like stars, dust and black holes cannot fully account ...

NASA is preparing to turn the center of our own galaxy into a precision test bed, using the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

In any other year, the supermassive black hole mentioned above would probably scoop the award for most striking outburst, but not in 2025. This year, that accolade goes to a flare designated ...

American space agency NASA announced the first major science program for the Nancy Grace Roman telescope, aside from the ...

The Nancy Grace Roman (the famous NASA astronomer, not to be mistaken for the crime show host), which is slated for launch by ...