The Milky Way Galaxy
The 11 farthest known stars in our galaxy are located about 300,000 light-years from Earth. New research shows that half of those stars might have been ripped from another galaxy.
The discovery has shed new light on the origins of globular clusters -- which are concentrations of typically a million stars, formed at the beginning of the Milky Way's history.
Astronomers have found an extremely faint dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
The new map reveals details about our galaxy that have never been seen before.
A hot and dense mass of complex molecules, cocooning a newborn star, has been discovered by a Japanese team of astronomers using ALMA.
A fossilized remnant of the early Milky Way harboring stars of hugely different ages has been revealed by an international team of astronomers.
The star is already more than 30 times the mass of our Sun.
