For decades, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form. But three new studies raise ...

On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...

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

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

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

Scientists said Thursday they have taken the first ever close-up image of a star outside of the Milky Way, capturing a blurry shot of a dying behemoth 2,000 times bigger than the Sun.

Three ultra-massive galaxies from the early universe, named "red monsters" show star formation happened faster than believed.

For the first time, astronomers have imaged a star located outside the Milky Way galaxy. The subject ... toward unraveling the mysteries of the universe beyond our cosmic neighborhood.

NGC 6355 has been imaged using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The globular cluster of stars lies 50,000 light-years away.

In the expanse of space, where stars burn and galaxies collide, there exists a type of star so strange and powerful that it ...

For decades, scientists have used the Milky Way as ... galaxies in the universe. "The Milky Way has been an incredible physics laboratory, including for the physics of galaxy formation and the ...

These objects were actually the Andromeda and Messier 33 galaxies, the closest large galaxies to our Milky Way ... universe” . Expansion of the Universe Besides estimating the distance to a ...