They orbit the Milky Way at a distance of about 160,000 light-years and are visible from the Southern Hemisphere without a telescope, according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies (M31) are part of what's known as the Local Group (LG), which also hosts other ...

So-called M dwarfs are the most common stars in the Milky Way. A research team has determined around which of them Earth-like ...

In orbit around the Milky Way are a number of dwarf galaxies, including the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds and the Triangulum galaxy (M33) ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...

For over a decade, researchers have suggested a high possibility of our Milky Way galaxy smashing into neighboring galaxy Andromeda around 5 billion years from now. The collision would merge the ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

In roughly 4 billion years, our home Milky Way galaxy may collide with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. We are approaching Andromeda at roughly 250,000 miles per hour, and scientists have ...

But the Large Magellanic Cloud, whose orbit intersects those of the Milky Way and Andromeda, makes it less likely. In short, it's a real "will they, won't they?".

The Milky Way was on a collision course with a neighboring galaxy. Not anymore. NASA scientists had forecast an impending crash in four billion years, sending the sun flying ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...