Our Sun is actually a cosmic refugee. Around 4.6 billion years ago, it first ignited in a hostile, radiation-blasted neighborhood 10,000 light-years closer to the Milky Way’s center than it is now.

Our sun was born 4.6 billion years ago near the crowded center of the Milky Way and then migrated roughly 10,000 light-years outward to the peaceful galactic suburbs it currently occupies. Now a pair ...

Thousands of sun "twins" spotted by a space telescope could shed new light on how our star came to host at least one life-friendly world — and a big stellar migration was involved. Researchers used ...

New research suggests our Sun was part of a huge migration of Sun-like stars that moved away from the Milky Way’s center billions of years ago.

Astronomers have found that both the core of our Milky Way and the earliest proto-galaxies in the universe share a surprising ...

Astronomers said in a statement that the enormous concentration of galaxies had long remained largely hidden behind dense ...

A sweeping new ALMA image has peeled back the veil on the Milky Way’s core, exposing a dense network of cold gas filaments ...

Over 4 billion years ago, as planets were coalescing around the newborn Sun, our star may have gone on an epic road trip across the Milky Way along with thousands of stellar "twins." And we may owe ...

Astronomers studying the Milky Way's oldest stars have estimated that the Universe is about 13.6 billion years old.

Super galaxy clusters are among the largest structures in the universe. Now, a particularly large one has been measured, ...

Astronomers have dived into the turbulent and chaotic heart of the Milky Way, discovering hidden chemistry around our galaxy's supermassive black hole.