The Milky Way's system of small, orbiting satellite galaxies is quite unusual, a new 12-year study of other galaxies in the ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

I s our home galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer this question ...

The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

Scientists are keen to get to the bottom of the dark matter puzzle because this phenomenon accounts for the vast majority of the "stuff" in the universe — about 85%, in fact. That means everything we ...

Watch the mesmerizing Tarantula Nebula video captured by the Hubble telescope, showcasing the most productive star-forming ...

Image of three Milky Way-like galaxies and their systems of satellite galaxies. The SAGA survey identified two, six, and nine small satellite galaxies in these three systems respectively.

and photobombing by a couple bright foreground stars that are actually inside our Milky Way B - NGC 206 the most conspicuous ...

Generally, the nights of and near the new moon – when the moon is not illuminated – are better for most stargazing experiences. Here are the dates of new moons this year.

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

Astronomers once assumed they had always orbited the Milky Way at approximately their current distances, like the other, lesser satellite galaxies in the Milky Way's gravitational thrall.

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...