From oceans found on distant planets to a detailed map of a fly’s brain, these findings deepened our understanding of the ...

In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully. Our galaxy's two closest neighbors are two dwarf galaxies known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), and the Small ...

Laniākea, a basin of attraction spanning 500 million light-years, was previously believed to encompass our galactic ...

This is just a small part of the universe—less than 1% of the entire observable universe—but it is our galactic neighborhood. And it is good to know the geography of your neighborhood.

Researchers observed the LMC's halo by using background light from 28 bright quasars, the brightest parts of active galactic nuclei, as "lighthouses" of sorts. This allowed them to see the halo's ...