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

The post Oldest Galaxy That Formed 280 million Years After The Big Bang Has Been Identified And Proves Yet Again How ...

The impending merger of the two galaxies hints at what might be in store for the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy if and ...

If you thought the Milky Way was grandiose in size, Quipu takes center stage right away. Quipu is the nickname for an immense ...

A galaxy in the early universe was rich with oxygen, astronomers have found. The discovery raises questions about how early ...

Ursa Major III/Unions 1 (UMa3/U1), the faintest known satellite of our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more ...

Dipole Repeller helping galaxy journey across universe Updated: 10:42 PM EST Jan 31, 2017 CNN Staff By Ashley Strickland NASA The Milky Way SOURCE: NASA Advertisement Milky Way galaxy is being ...

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite galaxies—up to 100 more than we currently know. These elusive "orphan" galaxies ...

A DISTANT galaxy that looks “surprisingly” like our Milky Way has been spotted by astronomers. The galaxy, named SPT0418-47, looks as it was when the Universe was a sprightly 1.4billion… ...

He concluded that the stars — and the spiral nebula to which they belong — must lie far beyond the Milky Way. That spiral galaxy, now known as the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), shares many characteristics ...

Our Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy—two giant galaxies in our local patch of the universe—are heading for an immense collision with each other in only a few billion years' time.

The Andromeda Galaxy, or M31, is the nearest large neighbor of our Milky Way, though it sits some 2.5 million light-years away. That makes it the most distant object regularly visible with the naked ...