Earth is not only orbiting the Sun it is also traveling through the Milky Way on an enormous galactic journey. In this video ...

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, scientists have found. The discovery, made in two separate pieces of research, could relieve one of the most troubling ...

Astronomers trace the Small Magellanic Cloud’s unusual stellar motions to a past cosmic encounter.

Galaxy next door to us is ‘transforming’ and changing our understanding of space - The ‘Small Magellanic Cloud’ does not look like other galaxies – and researchers might have worked out why ...

The first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of ...

They discovered that the host galaxy is incredibly massive — weighing in at over 40 billion times the mass of our Sun — and ...

Using a novel technique that examines the motion of two nearby galaxy groups within their surrounding cosmic flow, an ...

A new data release more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave candidate events—and reveals unexpected complexities of merging black holes ...