The Milky Way is at least 100,000 light-years across, but the new results suggest that the galaxy's star formation takes ...

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

The Milky Way may not have a sharp edge, but scientists have now found where its star-forming activity largely comes to an ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds clues about when it formed and what the galaxy was like at the time. Over ...

An international team has mapped the Milky Way’s star-forming boundary at about 35,000 to 40,000 light-years from its center using stellar age measurements and galaxy simulations. The work revealed a ...

Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way cannot keep them. When a star exceeds the galaxy’s escape speed, it becomes ...

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 ...

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

Studying the star, called SDSS J0715-7334, could give astronomers insights into how the universe's first stars were formed ...

Throughout the many adventures of Star Trek, it's extremely rare that the Enterprise (or any other ship) leaves the Milky Way ...

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