Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.

In recent groundbreaking research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the ...

Astronomers from around the world have made a groundbreaking discovery within the Milky Way Galaxy that promises to offer ...

"One day soon we may be able to see these 'missing' galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about how the universe came to be as we see it today." ...

A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as it tracks a course to collide with neighboring galaxies, a University ...

An impossibly bright galaxy is forcing scientists to rewrite the rules of the Big Bang’s aftermath. Here’s what you’ll learn ...

The newly confirmed supermassive black hole at the heart of CAPERS-LRD-z9 is known as an active galactic nucleus (AGN), the ...

By analyzing the data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from the University of Chicago, Illinois and elsewhere, have ...

A team of international astronomers has unveiled a massive, previously unknown cloud of gas and dust streaming toward the ...

A University of Queensland study suggests that the Milky Way is on a collision course with neighboring galaxies, predicting a ...

We are not alone—at least as a galaxy. About 50 dwarf galaxies surround the Milky Way. But when its intense gravity inevitably draws them to venture too close, they will probably be annihilated ...