We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

However, a small section of the galaxy crosses over into the neighboring ... the SMC resembles a piece of the Milky Way that ...

Say hello to one of the Milky Way's neighbors! This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The SMC ...

It was the first thing I thought of when looking at today's image of the Milky Way Galaxy's center. The main image showcases huge vertical filaments, with the supermassive black hole at the galaxy ...

In the center of the Milky Way, the conditions are actually ideal for the formation of stars. Now there is a clue as to why ...

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will collide and explode in 23 billion years. The blast—were we around to ...

Gaia has charted the cosmos since 2014, creating a vast encyclopedia of the positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond. It is difficult to capture the breadth of ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish, pinkish and bluish-white arc across the night sky, but this new super-long exposure image from South Africa's ground-based MeerKAT ...

Newly-processed image of Small Magellanic Cloud star cluster shows that this old space telescope can still impress with its pictures ...