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Astronomers Pinpoint the Milky Way’s Star-Forming Edge at 35,000–40,000 Light-Years

A U-shaped stellar age pattern from Gaia-linked surveys marks a sharp drop in star formation efficiency.

Two-Component Dark Matter Model Offers New Explanation for Milky Way Gamma-Ray Excess

Astronomers Identify Most Chemically Pristine Star Ever Observed

Astronomers Find Most Pristine Star Yet From the Large Magellanic Cloud

Study Traces Small Magellanic Cloud’s Odd Stellar Motions to Past Crash With the Large Magellanic Cloud

Gaia Finds Thousands of Solar Twins, Tying the Sun to a Mass Migration Across the Milky Way

ALMA Team Releases Largest Radio Map of the Milky Way’s Core

ALMA Unveils Record 650-Light-Year Mosaic of the Milky Way’s Turbulent Core

ESO/ALMA Unveil Largest, Sharpest Radio Map of the Milky Way’s Turbulent Core

ALMA Unveils 650-Light-Year Mosaic of the Milky Way’s Core, Revealing a Dense Filament Web

Bayesian Study Finds Hidden Nearby Alien Signals Unlikely, Urges Galaxy-Wide SETI Surveys

Breakthrough Listen Reports Candidate Millisecond Pulsar Near Sagittarius A*

Dark Matter Core Model Challenges Black Hole at Milky Way’s Center

Saturn-Mass Rogue Planet Gets First Direct Mass and Distance Measurement

January Night Sky: Jupiter’s Opposition Leads a Busy Month for Central Europe

New Images and Holiday Sky Guides Spotlight the Christmas Tree Cluster

Galaxies Are Cooling as Star Birth Slows, New Euclid–Herschel Analysis Suggests

NASA Details Roman Telescope’s Milky Way Map and Dark Energy Void Surveys as Launch Prep Advances

Astronomers Report Possible Dark Matter Signal in Fermi Gamma-Ray Data

Study of Fermi Data Reports 20 GeV Gamma-Ray Halo Consistent With Dark Matter Near Milky Way Center