Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.

The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to go from one end of our home galaxy to the other.

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...

These stunning celestial formations, captured using advanced space telescopes, reveal intricate details of stars at various ...

It seemed that these redshifted galaxies were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble’s results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was moving away from Earth. Hubble got ...

The Milky Way galaxy is packed with hydrogen atoms ... from star-forming gas clouds to the shapes of the galaxy's spiral arms. Whereas visible light just gets caught up in all the interstellar ...

which has been nicknamed “Milkdromeda,” will look very little like either galaxy. The characteristics of the spiral arms of the Milky Way, as well as Andromeda, will probably be disturbed, giving way ...

A strange energy source at the center of the Milky Way may be a new type of dark matter. Scientists found that hydrogen gas ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...