The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), on Wednesday, shared stunning views of the Milky Way galaxy visible ...

Nicknamed the Firefly Sparkle, this galaxy existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang and gleams with 10 distinct star ...

Dec. 11, 2024 — Stunning new photographs by a team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks remarkably similar to a young Milky Way. The extraordinary images give us an ...

As the sun rises, the Dragon spacecraft is immersed in light. The Milky Way is our home galaxy. From the outside, it would look like a big spiral with swirling arms, but we’re in the midst of it.

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga. The Large Magellanic Cloud, also called the LMC, is one of the Milky ...

New findings In one of the three new SAGA studies, researchers found that the number of satellites per host galaxy ranges from 0 to 13. The Milky Way's four observable satellites fit within that ...

The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission to map the position and motion of around 1.8 billion stars has revolutionized our view of the Milky Way. Combined with complementary state-of-the-art ...

NASA image shows LMC as it passes through the gaseous halo of the Milky Way galaxy. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning dance happening in the outer reaches of our Milky Way galaxy.

which hints at a past incident with the Milky Way in which our galaxy stripped the LMC of some of its material. Researchers used observations of the LMC from Hubble's ultraviolet vision.

Researchers for the first time have tracked a pulsing radio signal in space back to its original source — deep in our Milky ...

which were previously thought to reside within our Milky Way galaxy, were located outside it. These objects were actually the Andromeda and Messier 33 galaxies, the closest large galaxies to our ...