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

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

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

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 ...

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.

Roughly 160,000 light years from Earth, the star WOH G64 sits in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our home ...

Scientists said Thursday they have taken the first ever close-up image of a star outside of the Milky Way, capturing a blurry ...

A shockwave caused by the galaxy NGC 7318b slamming into four other ... "galactic archaeology" experiments to find how our own Milky Way grew over cosmic time. Ben Turner is a U.K. based staff ...