Artist’s impression: This photo illustration depicts a view of the night sky just before the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. About 3.75 billion ...

The Milky Way may not always have faced the same direction. New simulations suggest its stellar disc could have swung through ...

Massive bulge survey: Hubble mapped a vast area in the Milky Way's dense central bulge, cataloging up to 30 million stars for future comparison. Roman mission prep: The data will help Roman identify ...

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The Milky Way's galactic bulge, the bulbous region that surrounds the galactic center, contains a dense collection of stars, planets, and other free-floating objects. This region has been studied for ...

A fossilised remnant of the early Milky Way harbouring stars of hugely different ages has been revealed by an international team of astronomers. This stellar system resembles a globular cluster, but ...

Magnetars are among the rarest—and weirdest—denizens of the galactic zoo. They have powerful magnetic fields and may be the source of fast radio bursts (FRBs). A team of astronomers led by European ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical ...

"The LMC is a survivor." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully.

Scientists have long suspected that this star cluster was a hotspot for a certain kind of black hole. But for decades, they ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his ...