the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also contains the Milky Way. Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon ...

According to the SAGA Survey’s third data release, which analyzed 378 satellite galaxies orbiting 101 Milky Way-mass systems, the number of satellites per galaxy varies widely, from zero to 13.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

Aterrifying glimpse of a possible fate for our galaxy, the Milky Way, has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic anomaly that challenges our understanding of the universe. An ...

Instead of a relatively distant dark galaxy, Westmeier thinks the object is more likely a regular gas cloud at the edge of the Milky Way. “I’m very skeptical about the claims that they’re ...

All but one of M31's brightest 37 satellites are on the side of the Andromeda spiral that faces our Milky Way galaxy – the odd one out being Messier 110, which is easily visible in amateur ...

That’s why it might sound pretty scary to learn that scientists now believe the center of the Milky Way galaxy — that’s where we are, in case you had forgotten — is teeming with black holes.

Some three times the size of our Milky Way, the galaxy lies nearly a billion years away from us. The team found that 2MASX J23453268−0449256 sports a supermassive black hole larger than thought ...

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms. The galaxy, NGC 5530, is located 40 ...