Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.

In recent groundbreaking research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as it tracks a course to collide with neighboring galaxies, a University ...

"One day soon we may be able to see these 'missing' galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about how the universe came to be as we see it today." ...

An impossibly bright galaxy is forcing scientists to rewrite the rules of the Big Bang’s aftermath. Here’s what you’ll learn ...

A team of international astronomers has unveiled a massive, previously unknown cloud of gas and dust streaming toward the ...

By analyzing the data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from the University of Chicago, Illinois and elsewhere, have ...

A University of Queensland study suggests that the Milky Way is on a collision course with neighboring galaxies, predicting a ...

The newly confirmed supermassive black hole at the heart of CAPERS-LRD-z9 is known as an active galactic nucleus (AGN), the ...

We are not alone—at least as a galaxy. About 50 dwarf galaxies surround the Milky Way. But when its intense gravity inevitably draws them to venture too close, they will probably be annihilated ...

A stargazer has managed to capture a stunning view of the Perseid meteor shower from the South West. Josh Dury used clever ...