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

A distant galaxy nicknamed "Cosmic Grapes" is bursting with massive star-forming clumps — far more than expected — offering ...

ESA’s Gaia mission has made a major breakthrough in unraveling the formation history of the Milky Way. Instead of forming alone, our galaxy merged with another large galaxy early in its life ...

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

With so much still to learn about the formation of galaxies, it makes sense to start with our own Milky Way galaxy as a test case. The Milky Way is “a tremendously average galaxy,” Rix said.

By Natalie Crofts | Posted - Nov. 17, 2015 at 11:51 a.m. (Chris Owen/ANU) 4 photos Save Story Oldest stars found near Milky Way centre Estimated read time: 2-3 minutes ...

In the past decade, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behavior of ...

The LMC is more than 160,000 light-years away from our galaxy. “The bottom line is that the Large Magellanic Cloud seems to have had a similar early formation history as the Milky Way,” Cook said.

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 ...

M11 is best viewed in the hours between sunset and midnight in August, when the cluster can be found roughly 40 degrees above ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is the latest in a series of stunning cosmic phenomena that should be visible in August across the United States.

The center of the Milky Way, which Dyches refers to as "the core," became visible in June and is expected to shine every ...