Most stars in the Milky Way move at steady speeds, orbiting the galactic center in regular paths. But astronomers have ...

Millky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. [Gaia spacecraft: Mapping the ...

ESA's Gaia mission ends its tenure—creating the most comprehensive and precise 3D map of Milky Way Galaxy In March 2025, the ...

A rare kind of white dwarf can escape the galaxy at 1,200 miles per second. New 3D simulations explain the violent supernova chain behind it.

A key mystery about Type Ia supernovas is that, in the dominant theory known as D6, a white dwarf would need a companion star ...

The universe hides many things from humans, but this time the space telescope Gaia, from the European Space Agency, found ...

After several hyper-fast white dwarf stars were discovered, there is now an explanation. The objects are the product of a ...

Astronomers have uncovered the origins of some of the fastest stars in the Milky Way—hypervelocity white dwarfs, which can ...

In a breakthrough study published in Nature Astronomy, researchers have discovered a new origin for some of the fastest stars ...

Gaia mapped billions of stars and revealed hidden connections in the Milky Way, reshaping how we understand our galaxy.

Professor Bhardwaj and his team have studied 40 oxygen-rich Mira stars in 18 clusters of stars in the Milky Way galaxy ...

The system, named UPM J1040−3551 AabBab, is located about 82 light-years from Earth. The two pairs—the brown dwarfs and the bright stars, identified as red dwarfs —are separated by 1,656 astronomical ...