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

Researchers have found that there's something highly unusual about the Milky Way, setting it apart from other galaxies. As ...

Research shows that galaxies form inside gigantic haloes of dark matter, the elusive substance that doesn't interact with ...

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

Edwin Hubble's revelation in 1924 that the Andromeda Nebula was, in fact, an 'island universe,' was a pivotal moment in our ...

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

If the Large Magellanic Cloud were not quite so massive, the Milky Way would have robbed it of any opportunity to form new ...

The formation of galaxies in the universe should follow a fairly simple path. It starts with small galaxies, which then grow ...

The Sombrero galaxy, which is about the size of the Milky Way, is positioned some 30 million light-years away. The Webb ...

Drawing on those images and computer simulations, the team reports that UFO galaxies seem to be similar in size and shape to ...

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

The Goldstone Solar System Radar, part of NASA’s Deep Space Network, made these observations of the recently discovered ...