NASA, in collaboration with the European Space Agency, has updated its long-standing prediction about a future collision between the Milky ...

Scientists have discovered a potentially record-breaking fast planetary system, with a star and possible exoplanet moving at around 1.2 mil...

Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of the Sun. The L...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest "building blocks" of the Milky Way galaxy, named 'Shakti' and 'Shiva', dating back 12-13 billion y...

Milky seas are a rare nocturnal phenomenon in which the ocean's surface emits a steady bright glow. They can cover thousands of square mile...

Scientists at the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) have discovered 28 new variable stars in the Milky Way ga...

The astronomers have looked back more than 12 billion years to the early dark ages of the universe, when this supermassive black hole was e...

The wayward stellar island may provide valuable insights into the origin and evolution of galaxies billions of years ago.

London, Feb 28 (IANS) An international team of astronomers has discovered evidence to show that some stars located in the Galactic halo sur...

New York, Sep 21 (IANS) Our galaxy, which is home to Earth and its solar system, might not be as "typical" as previously thought, and there...

London, July 15 (IANS) Researchers have discovered a very distant galaxy which is about a thousand times brighter than the Milky Way.

London, Feb 8 (IANS) Two largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way -- the enigmatic Magellanic Clouds -- appear to be connected by a brid...

These star forming episodes may last for several billions of years, depending on the mass, orbit and concentration of the dark satellite, r...

The chart uses the ages of more than 70,000 stars and extends halfway across our galaxy to 50,000 light-years away.

Gaia, the satellite built by the ESA, is on a mission to catalog a billion stars and create a massive 3D map of the Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomer Igor Chilingarian said the galaxies were "facing a lonely future, exiled from the galaxy clusters they used to live in,".

The others could be either dwarf galaxies or globular clusters - objects with similar visible properties to dwarf galaxies, but not held to...