Astronomers have found the boundary of star formation in the Milky Way's spiral disk — and it's not as far out from the ...

The properties of faint dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way can reveal a lot about the conditions of the early universe, the ...

Astronomers have discovered the edge of the Milky Way’s star-forming disk, revealing that most new stars form within 40,000 ...

Do the building blocks of life exist beyond the Milky Way, and can we identify them? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an international ...

Research findings are available online in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. The original story “ For the first time, ...

Astronomers have identified the outer boundary of the star-forming region in the Milky Way. By analysing the ages of stars ...

How far the Milky Way's disk extends has long been difficult to define—it doesn't end sharply, but fades away gradually at ...

Scientists map frozen water across the Milky Way, revealing vast “interstellar glaciers” that may help seed new planets and ...

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies—tiny satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way—have long been seen as cosmic fossils. Now, a new ...

How far the Milky Way's disc extends has long been difficult to define — it doesn't end sharply, but fades away gradually at its outer edges. Now, for the first time, an international team of ...