Astronomers have finally identified where the Milky Way’s star-making activity fades, uncovering a long-sought boundary in ...

A fresh look at the Trifid Nebula shows a dynamic region where powerful stellar winds continue to spark new stars into life.

Our sun is a bit of an outlier in the general stellar population. We typically think of stars as being solitary wanderers ...

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

Astronomers have precisely mapped the Milky Way’s star-forming boundary, finding it lies about 35,000–40,000 light-years from the galactic center—closer than previously thought. The discovery, based ...

The older stars migrated out from the galactic center, leaving the younger ones inside.

NASA's powerful James Webb Space telescope has revealed a colorful spread of stars and cosmic dust in the Milky Way's most active star-forming region. The telescope was studying Sagittarius B2, a ...

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

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

'This challenges current models of disk chemistry and evolution' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Using the James Webb Space ...