Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

That's the Andromeda galaxy, our closest galactic neighbor, and in 4 billion years, it will collide with the Milky Way, throwing our ... unexpected places beyond Earth, these massive gas halos ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... either consuming Earth or roasting it.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really stood on ...

The lab released a new image of two galaxies merging, which teases the fate of the Milky Way. The galactic merger is located around 60 million light-years away from Earth. In the image ...

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially ... stars in the Andromeda galaxy that are brighter than Earth's sun. But astronomers estimate ...