A recent study suggests that our Milky Way galaxy could be much larger than previously thought, potentially overlapping with ...

NGC 6744 is a spiral galaxy bigger than, but otherwise very similar to, our own. NASA has dubbed the large spiral galaxy the ...

The Milky Way, a barred spiral galaxy, has been extensively studied by NASA. Infrared images illustrate polarized dust, while ...

Astronomers have long considered it inevitable that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with the neighboring galaxy ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has around 150 ...

Among the Milky Way’s outskirts is a firecracker show of star formation. How do environmental factors affect the star ...

The results are in line with theory — but the key to an accurate measurement was understanding how dusty the galaxy is.

Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space — so far that the Milky Way likely ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

The Triangulum Galaxy, the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, is shining with star formation in a new image ...

Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space — so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor ...