Yao-Yuan Mao, with images from the DESI Legacy Surveys Sky Viewer. For years, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form and evolve. But new research ...

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga. The Large Magellanic Cloud, also called the LMC, is one of the Milky ...

Milky Way strips LMC's gas halo with ram pressure. Hubble captures dramatic interaction between galaxies. LMC retains enough gas for new star formation.

which were previously thought to reside within our Milky Way galaxy, were located outside it. These objects were actually the Andromeda and Messier 33 galaxies, the closest large galaxies to our ...

"The LMC is a survivor." In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully. Our galaxy's two closest neighbors are two dwarf galaxies known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC ...

"For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way." Astronomers have captured a "zoomed-in" image of a star outside the Milky ...

It's hard to imagine that someday, the Milky Way galaxy will cease to exist. Looking up at the stars, it feels as though Earth, and even the solar system that it belongs to, is infinite.

Astronomers have captured the first detailed images of a star beyond our Milky Way galaxy on the verge of a supernova. The star, WOH G64, is surrounded by an egg-shaped cocoon of gas and dust ...

Shapley used the period-luminosity relationship to estimate distances to other Cepheids across the Milky Way. This is how Shapley reached his estimate for our galaxy's size. But, in order for ...

According to the study, this structure of gas surrounding the dwarf galaxy is only a tenth of the size of comparable galaxies. Most of it has apparently been pushed away by our Milky Way ...

While space is often thought of as a quiet, eerie place of stillness, a dramatic saga is unfolding on the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is serving as an eyewitness ...