Research shows that galaxies form inside gigantic haloes of dark matter, the elusive substance that doesn't interact with ...

If you thought that the Milky Way was just your average run-of-the-mill galaxy, you’d be wrong. Turns out that it’s quite the ...

The name for our galaxy comes from the ancient Greek words for ‘milk’ or ‘milky’. They could only see it as a bright band of ...

For decades, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form. But three new studies raise ...

For years, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form and evolve. But new research ...

"For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way." ...

Milky Way strips LMC's gas halo with ram pressure. Hubble captures dramatic interaction between galaxies. LMC retains enough gas for new star formation.

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 star is located 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. Known ...

The answer is: a radio telescope that can track hydrogen in the Milky Way as well as the velocities of hydrogen clouds via their Doppler shifts, according to a paper by [Jack Phelps] titled ...