Encounter Blew Away Most of Smaller Galaxy's Gaseous Halo In a dramatic tale of survival captured by the Hubble Space ...

Astrophotographer Josh Dury’s photo of the Milky Way over Easter Island’s Moai statues has been honoured by NASA as Astronomy Photo of the Day.

You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky Way ... galaxy motions in the region. The basins exert a sort of "tug of war" on galaxies that lie between them. That influences their motions. In particular, ...

Hubble captures LMC's interaction with the Milky Way’s halo. Surprising findings show LMC’s compact gas halo. Ram-pressure ...

The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...

Recent observations using Hubble have allowed astronomers to measure the size of the Large Magellanic Cloud's halo for the ...

The James Webb telescope has spotted three gigantic "red monster" galaxies that were spawned soon after the Big Bang. They're ...

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

An international team of scientists has made a major breakthrough in understanding how and when the Sun formed about 4.6 ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe -- and in any hypothetical ones beyond it -- can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation. This ...

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