our Milky Way Galaxy will be putting on a show at times this summer such that it can be seen with the naked eye from certain ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant known spiral galaxy to date.

Led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara, the team has discovered that the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, may be getting torn ... move in opposite directions ...

A recent study published in Nature Astronomy has revealed that the dwarf galaxies orbiting around Andromeda, our neighboring ...

Murray The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of ... is a dwarf galaxy home to active star formation. It is one of our Milky Way galaxy's closest neighbors alongside ...

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will collide ... The blast—were we around to see it—would appear ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more ... the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole.

The SMC remains one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way. This proximity allowed ... were moving in opposite directions on either side of the galaxy, as though they are being pulled apart ...

which also contains the Milky Way, the Triangulum galaxy, and about 30 other smaller galaxies. I decided to present my final view of M31 in a little different way, framing with a rotation that ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...