Astronomers discovered dozens of stellar streams in the Milky Way using Gaia data, offering new clues about galaxy formation ...

Astronomers working with data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope have identified 87 stellar stream ...

A set of star clusters previously thought to be the most ancient native systems in our galaxy, were in fact stolen by the Milky Way from a puny neighbour, Korean astronomers believe. Their conclusion ...

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Astronomers have uncovered dozens of faint star ribbons in the Milky Way's outskirts, potentially revealing new insights into ...

In the past decade, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behavior of billions of stars. Our pioneering stargazer has reshaped our view of the skies ...

Spring means it’s time to look up into our night sky and find one of the oldest objects in our galaxy: the M3 Cluster. NASA and other sky experts call this group of ancient stars “a truly distant ...

A new image from Nasa’s Webb Telescope captures a stunning new look at Messier 90 (M90), a massive spiral galaxy escaping the Virgo Cluster and heading toward the Milky Way, Earth’s home galaxy.