Astronomers have observed a massive pair of jets releasing from a supermassive black hole 7.5 billion light-years from Earth.

Both the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Large Magellanic Cloud are dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky Way and are being steadily drawn toward our galaxy for a collision and ...

The seven images of our cosmic neighbors shared by NASA includes VV124, Tucana Dwarf, Tarantula Nebula, NGC 1898, NGC 261, ...

However, these dwarf spheroidal galaxies — which are generally devoid ... skywatching events and more! — Milky Way's cosmic neighbors help bring ancient galaxies into focus ...

It is also called the “Cigar Galaxy” because of the elliptical shape ... in the deep red light of its nearby parent star, the M dwarf Gliese 876. Credit: Trent Schindler, National Science ...

Additionally, the Tucana Dwarf lies about 3.6 million light-years from the Local Group's center of mass, far from the Milky Way and other galaxies. It is only one of two dwarf spheroidal galaxies ...

Studies have suggested that the Milky Way owes its shape to collisions with other dwarf galaxies over the last 2 billion years. This time around, even with the latest observational technologies ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have identified two pairs of supermassive black holes on the brink of merging, an event never observed before in the cosmos. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Do aliens sleep? You may take sleep for granted, but research suggests many planets that could evolve life don’t have a day ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Milky Way Survey (DESI MWS) will explore the assembly history of the Milky Way by ...

(CNN) — An object spotted with help of citizen scientists was moving so fast through the Milky Way that it could escape the gravity of the galaxy and ... star or a brown dwarf, a celestial ...