The star, situated in a galaxy orbiting our own tens of thousands of light-years away, may be on the verge of a spectacular ...

the Milky Way had only 11 known satellites. That changed when the Sloan Digital Sky Survey began collecting data in the early 2000s, Geha said. Sloan produced the first digital map covering more ...

Using data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey, astronomers have created a 3D map of the low-density bubble of X-ray-emitting, million-degree hot gas that surrounds the solar system. The investigation ...

Scientists may have finally hit upon the possible mysterious sources that have pumped heat and kept alive the fiery hot gas ...

American space agency NASA says it has begun installing the telescope assembly in the space observatory that will become ...

In 2023, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory confirmed high-energy neutrinos from the Milky Way, marking a new era in astronomy.

These objects were actually the Andromeda and Messier 33 galaxies, the closest large galaxies to our Milky Way. Today, up to ...

"The LMC is a survivor." 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 ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 light-years and contains between 100 billion and 400 billion stars. The Milky Way is ...