Learn about the new research that changes the estimates of the Milky Way’s demise.

Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...

The debut images from a powerful telescope at Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory show distant galaxies and star-forming regions ...

Very few galaxies beyond our Local Group have had their dwarf families mapped out in detail — the galaxies are just too far away and too faint, ...

It exists with over 50 other galaxies called the Local Group, ... (M33) — the latter half the size of our Milky Way and the third-largest galaxy in our local group of galaxies, ...

Hubble Space Telescope image of the Triangulum Galaxy, also known as Messier 33, which is the third-largest galaxy in our Local Group of galaxies. | Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Boyer (STScI), and J ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's first image release includes a 'staggering' view of 10 million galaxies in and around the ...

For years, astronomers have been working to piece together the story of our universe, but the critical early chapters ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring ... After factoring in the gravitational pull of Local Group galaxies and running 100,000 simulations using new data from the ...

“Our work is the necessary first step toward further understanding the faintest galaxies beyond the Local Group, and toward more robustly constraining the demographics of ultra-faint dwarf ...