The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially adopted its new galactic archaeology mission, Arrakihs, set to launch by the ...

As a galactic archaeologist, my job is to reconstruct the past of our galaxy – and read the signs of its future.

The Magellanic Clouds are a pair of dwarf galaxies passing the Milky Way probably for the first time, but as they move they ...

Unusual stellar remnants suggest the Milky Way might have eaten a galaxy called Loki billions of years ago, according to new ...

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 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.

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Understanding the nature of our cosmos requires an accurate map of how galaxies are spread throughout it. For decades, ...

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 ...

A potential dark galaxy — one made primarily of dark matter — may have been spotted in the local universe. Dark galaxies are theoretical, starless systems whose discovery could help astronomers better ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now think ...