In recent groundbreaking research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the ...

The Milky Way galaxy glows alongside the zodiacal light over the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile.

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.

Newly identified Midpoint cloud reveals rare insight into star formation and the movement of galactic material toward the center of the Milky Way. A group of astronomers from around the world has ...

Ursa Major III, the faintest object in our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more than 30,000 light years. Until ...

A University of Queensland study suggests that the Milky Way is on a collision course with neighboring galaxies, predicting a ...

"One day soon we may be able to see these 'missing' galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about how the universe came to be as we see it today." ...

A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as it tracks a course to collide with neighboring galaxies, a University ...

A team of international astronomers has unveiled a massive, previously unknown cloud of gas and dust streaming toward the ...

An impossibly bright galaxy is forcing scientists to rewrite the rules of the Big Bang’s aftermath. Here’s what you’ll learn ...

Astronomers have studied the merger of galaxies NGC 5713 and NGC 5719 to understand the future collision between the Milky ...