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 ...

Princeton University graduate student Jiaxuan Li (李嘉轩) was part of a team seeking dwarf galaxies orbiting the spiral galaxy ...

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 ...

It's hard to imagine that someday, the Milky Way galaxy will cease to exist. Looking up at the stars, it feels as though Earth, and even the solar system that it belongs to, is infinite. But our sun ...

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

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.

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