A study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics has identified four previously unknown primordial open cluster (OC) groups in ...

UConn's Milky Way Laboratory, headed by the Department of Physics Associate Professor Cara Battersby, presents their ...

A recent study reveals four previously unknown primordial open cluster groups in the Milky Way, challenging traditional ...

Scientists say they've uncovered the "largest known galactic structure" — a cosmic monster that spans a mind-boggling 1.4 ...

A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

Astronomers have discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure, approximately 14 million years ago. This journey ...

A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the Milky Way, without signs of a galactic collision. Using Webb and ALMA, ...

The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like ...

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy with a central bar-shaped structure and several spiral arms extending from the center. The galaxy has a dense central bulge around the Galactic Center ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure ...