Galaxy next door to us is ‘transforming’ and changing our understanding of space - The ‘Small Magellanic Cloud’ does not look ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the ...

Billions of stars fill our galaxy that become visible at certain times of year. And in the U.S., that time, known as "Milky ...

A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our ...

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and planets are formed.

A simulation of the cosmic sheet as seen from the side, with voids above and below. (Wempe et al., Nat. Astron., 2026) The Milky Way isn't just drifting through a giant void in space untethered, but ...

Two new studies have measured the expansion of the universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that ...

Astronomers have discovered a flattened structure of matter around the Milky Way that explains the unusual motion of nearby galaxies.

After a new upgrade, a neutrino observatory in Antarctica may identify dormant supermassive black holes within our galaxy.

Scientists have uncovered evidence that our Sun may have traveled across the Milky Way as part of a massive migration of ...