THE Milky Way may have already commenced its ill-fated collision with a neighboring galaxy – and scientists predict this ...

The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy may already be colliding after it was discovered that galaxies may have gas halos far ...

An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek ...

Thirteen billion years ago, the gas and dust particles that eventually became our Milky Way were whizzing around in every ...

NGC 6744 is a spiral galaxy bigger than, but otherwise very similar to, our own. NASA has dubbed the large spiral galaxy the ...

Astronomers have examined the Extreme Outer Galaxy, also known as the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy, using the ...

"You may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store," wrote Douglas Adams in his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...

The Triangulum Galaxy, the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, is shining with star formation in a new image ...

A recent study suggests that our Milky Way galaxy could be much larger than previously thought, potentially overlapping with ...

Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space — so far that the Milky Way likely ...

The magnificent galaxy featured in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 1559. It is a barred spiral galaxy ...