The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

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.

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

The research therefore gives more credence to the theory that the Milky Way was already forming stars before the collision ... our galaxy’s halo is full of debris from some massive dwarf ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than three trillion ...

Blue straggler—A star that forms in a globular cluster from the collision ... including the Milky Way, and extends far beyond the region of luminous stars. Dwarf galaxy—The smallest and ...

At least 50 billion planets in our own Milky Way galaxy ... form of collision. How typical is the Orion Trapezium cluster? Very typical, there are thousands of such regions in the galaxy, says ...

Dwarf galaxies ... befall the Milky Way and Andromeda. In September 2024, the James Webb Space Telescope captured this collision in progress between an elliptical galaxy and a special type of ...