Several stars that appeared to have formed 12 to 13 billion years ago were spotted in the Milky Way halo—basically, our galaxy's suburbs.

The stars are not as tightly packed in our region of the Milky Way as they are at the galaxy’s nucleus. This is fortunate for planet Earth: The interior of the galaxy is a dangerous place.

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.

Astronomers have discovered more than 200 distant variable stars known as RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way’s stellar halo. The most distant of these stars is more than a million light years from Earth, ...

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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.

Cambridge, Mass. – A new study has revealed the true shape of the diffuse cloud of stars surrounding the disk of our galaxy. For decades, astronomers have thought that this cloud of stars ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them can offer a rare glimpse into how stars can endure — at least briefly ...

After surveying 5 million stars throughout our galaxy, researchers identified seven that may host Dyson spheres: super-advanced alien megastructures. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

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 ...