A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals turbulent environments found in Sagittarius C, a core part of our Milky Way galaxy.

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

A bright star located in the Milky Way appears nestled in the distant galaxy NGC 5530 due to a chance alignment along the ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to ...

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked ...

Researchers link two ancient mass extinctions to nearby supernova explosions, which may have damaged Earth's atmosphere and ...

The fast-moving gas cloud could help explain the so-called missing satellite problem, if the object is what scientists think ...

As part of ESA/Hubble's 35th anniversary celebrations, the European Space Agency (ESA) is sharing a new image series ...

A quiet neighbour of the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), appears to be falling apart. And scientists say they ...

"No existing galaxy formation model within our standard cosmological paradigm can currently explain how this galaxy came to ...