the Milky Way is headed toward a collision with a supermassive black hole. This black hole, nestled in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, has been detected ...

Hubble’s 35‑year celebration brings a vibrant reimagining of the Sombrero Galaxy, revealing hidden dust lanes and far‑flung stars. This iconic “Mexican hat” quietly forms almost no new stars while ...

Looking for a really big story, I naturally headed for "Galaxies in Collision." Bradley Whitmore of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore brought us up to speed. We've known for a ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

"A supercomputer simulation shows many galaxies merging over time. The parts of galaxies we can see are glowing stars forming ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek Space:1999 free-floating planets, As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the ...

An international research team led by Dr. Zhang Suinan from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of ...

estimate the shape and mass of the dark matter halo that surrounds the Milky Way, and solve the decades-old mystery of our galaxy's warped and wobbling disk — which is likely due to an ongoing ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

Astronomers have identified two massive white dwarf stars in a binary system within the Milky Way, poised for a rare ...