For years, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form and evolve. But new research ...

Scientists may have finally hit upon the possible mysterious sources that have pumped heat and kept alive the fiery hot gas ...

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

These objects were actually the Andromeda and Messier 33 galaxies, the closest large galaxies to our Milky Way. Today, up to ...

In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully.

The star, situated in a galaxy orbiting our own tens of thousands of light-years away, may be on the verge of a spectacular ...

Scientists have finally imaged a star outside of the Milky Way for the first time. Here's what it looks like and how they did ...

"For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way." ...

Milky Way strips LMC's gas halo with ram pressure. Hubble captures dramatic interaction between galaxies. LMC retains enough ...

WOH G64 is what's known as a red giant, a star nearing the end of its life, running out of hydrogen fuel. Through this ...

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

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning phenomenon happening in the outer reaches of the Milky Way galaxy.