The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments. If some of them are about ...

The Andromeda galaxy, left, is about to collide with part of the Milky Way, as seen from Earth, in a hypothetical merger scenario. Credit: NASA illustration "Based on the best available data, the fate ...

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighbouring regions of the universe, astronomers say. Their theory is a ...

Scientists believe the Hubble telescope has, for the first time, detected evidence of a black hole situated between stars in our galaxy. "Until now, all black hole masses have been inferred ...

Scientists from Helsinki, Durham and Toulouse universities used data from NASA's Hubble and the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescopes to simulate how the Milky Way and Andromeda will evolve ...

Behind the dusty clouds of the Cigar Galaxy lies a dazzling powerhouse of star formation, where stars are being born ten times faster than in the Milky Way. Astronomers using the Hubble Space ...

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led by Dr. Vivian Tan, who completed her doctorate at York University under the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The oldest stars in the Milky Way provide information about the age of the universe. (CREDIT: Elena Tomasetti) The oldest stars in ...