New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of ...

Using the speeds of the stars and the relative number of ones ejected by the LMC and Milky Way supermassive black holes, the ...

Galaxies expand, with stars being birthed and dying as time goes on, releasing energy and mass into the universe. Based on these new findings, scientists believe the Milky Way’s rate of star ...

The enormity of space often puts us at ease, giving us a false sense of cosmic permanence. However, our own Milky Way is on a path to collide with its giant neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. The next ...

There is apparently a supermassive black hole in the Milky Way's largest satellite galaxy that is hurling hyper-fast stars into our home galaxy. This is what a research group led by Jiwon Jesse ...

Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC We now have the most detailed catalogue of stars in our Milky Way galaxy yet. The new map -- created using data collected by the Gaia satellite -- shows about 1.7 billion ...

"These ancient stars in the disk suggest that the formation of the Milky Way's thin disk began much earlier than previously believed, by about 4–5 billion years," explains Samir Nepal from AIP ...

(WSVN) — Star gazers in the Florida Keys were treated to some Milky Way magic on Monday ... moonless nights, formed from stars in other galaxies.

In order for the Milky Way to be sharp in the picture, the exposure can’t be any longer than about 90 seconds. (And that’s with a very wide 14mm lens.) Any longer and the stars will start to ...

A mysterious, one-off flash of energy from an unknown object outside the Milky Way has left astronomers ... triggered by a system involving two stars within the galaxy. One of those stars would ...