Celestial objects known as dark dwarfs may be hiding at the center of our galaxy and could offer key clues to uncover the ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...

Unusually fast-moving gas clouds near a nearby galaxy suggest they may have come from outside the galaxy. Scientists have ...

Immigrant rights activists are set to participate in a Run Against ICE Saturday morning along a 15-mile route from Koreatown ...

Several arrests were reported Friday after a large group of protesters blocked traffic in downtown Los Angeles during a July 4 rally opposing federal immigration enforcement raids and other policies ...

The long-awaited Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first batch of images Monday (June 23), captivating the world with ...

Exactly which of these scenarios ultimately occurs could be governed by the masses of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Triangulum galaxy, two galactic players in the Local Group.

Both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies (M31) are part of what's known as the Local Group (LG), which also hosts other smaller galaxies (some not yet discovered) as well as dark matter (per ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years, has been anticipated by astronomers since 1912.

After factoring in the gravitational pull of Local Group galaxies and running 100,000 simulations using new data from the Hubble and Gaia space telescopes, the team found there is about a 50% ...

Approaching, but not directly The Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies are the two biggest galaxies in our section of the universe, referred to as the Local Group. Despite being 2.5 million light ...

It’s the fourth largest galaxy in the Local Group, a gravitationally bound neighborhood of galaxies that’s dominated by the Milky Way and Andromeda.