Some stars in our very own Milky Way are some of the earliest ever seen, according to research published today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The stars are in the Milky ...

It orbits about 26,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy, on the Orion Spur that shoots off from the Sagittarius spiral arm. The stars are not as tightly packed in our region of the Milky ...

The most distant of these stars is more than a million light years from Earth, almost half the distance to our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda, which is about 2.5 million light years away.

New research led by Dr. James De Buizer at the SETI Institute and Dr. Wanggi Lim at IPAC at Caltech revealed surprising ...

The most distant of these stars is more than a million light years from Earth, almost half the distance to our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda, which is about 2.5 million light years away. The ...

Blue stars are by far the biggest and brightest stars in the galaxy. To the naked eye ... as much mass as the sun will tend to look blue to our eyes. That's irrespective of other factors such ...

While our pocket of the universe is home to a solitary sun, that's not the norm. More than half of all stars in the sky have one or more companions, yet until now, none have been found near a ...

Researchers found seven stars in our galaxy that might host alien megastructures called Dyson spheres. But these stars' strange behavior could also be explained by other phenomena, like clouds of ...

Stars with the right characteristics to become stellar engines have been shown to exist in our galaxy, he says. There are two main reasons why an advanced alien race might have to travel through ...