The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using ...

Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the ...

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

Astronomers from the University of Groningen have discovered that the Milky Way does not move in the cosmic void, but is embedded in a flat "sheet" of dark matter. This was reported on March 11 in the ...

An international research team has found that the Milky Way and its galactic neighbors appear to sit inside a vast, flat concentration of dark matter, a structure stretching roughly 10 megaparsecs and ...

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

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors, is undergoing a transformation visible from the southern hemisphere. This change is due ...

The comet formed in a cold and distant part of the early Milky Way up to 12 billion years ago, putting it just under 2 ...

Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...

They discovered that the host galaxy is incredibly massive — weighing in at over 40 billion times the mass of our Sun — and deeply obscured. The James Webb Space Telescope, which can peer through gas ...