These objects were actually the Andromeda and Messier 33 galaxies, the closest large galaxies to our Milky Way. Today, up to ...

A group of international scientists discovered three ultra-massive “Red Monster” galaxies capable of forming their own stars ...

In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully.

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and Milky-Way-like galaxy yet. The disc galaxy was seen as it was just 700 ...

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

Hubble captures the aftermath of the Large Magellanic Cloud’s dramatic encounter with the Milky Way, revealing the loss of ...

American space agency NASA says it has begun installing the telescope assembly in the space observatory that will become ...

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

"This is useful to uncover leftovers from galactic interactions,constraining the hierarchical process of cosmic structure ...

If the Large Magellanic Cloud were not quite so massive, the Milky Way would have robbed it of any opportunity to form new ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning phenomenon happening in the outer reaches of the Milky Way galaxy.

Confirming if a nearby dwarf galaxy is a Milky Way satellite involves spectroscopy — analysis of the light it emits — to ...