A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really stood on the shoulders of a number of people," said Jeff Rich, an astronomer at ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way—the magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31). It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.

We’re just coming up on August’s “Milky Way” window, arguably the best 10 days of the year for viewing our galaxy. So clear your diary this weekend and get outside to as dark a site as ...

Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy ... an opacity to the universe. No light got through.

The Large Magellanic Cloud, also called the LMC, is one of the Milky Way galaxy's nearest ... A smaller galaxy wouldn't have lasted—there would be no gas left, just a collection of aging red ...

A - Clusters bright blue stars embedded within the galaxy, background galaxies seen much farther away, and photobombing by a couple bright foreground stars that are actually inside our Milky Way B ...