New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to ...

Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 ...

Astronomers have been aware of cosmic vampires, dead stars that hungrily strip plasma from victim stars, for some time. New ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to discover REBELS-25, a Milky Way-like galaxy from the ...

New simulations suggest that dozens of ultra-faint “ghost” galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, hidden from current ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...

Back in 2010, scientists spotted something shocking: a pair of gigantic, glowing lobes of gas bursting from the Milky Way’s ...

NGC 1786’s mixed-age stars suggest globular clusters aren’t one-generation wonders, offering fresh clues to galaxy formation far beyond the Milky Way.