The universe is undergoing an accelerated expansion, but the rate of that expansion has been a very controversial topic over ...

Have you ever wondered why everything in the Universe seems to rotate in a counterclockwise direction? From the spinning of ...

Our little Local Group, by contrast, contains roughly 50 confirmed and possibly 30 unconfirmed galaxies, most of them unimpressive dwarfs. Many, perhaps most, galaxies exist in such small groups ...

A newly discovered dwarf galaxy in the Local Group has been found to have formed in a region of space far from our own and is falling into our system for the first time in its history, according ...

Our local supercluster spans 10 times the diameter of the Local Group, gathering smaller groups and clusters of galaxies together into a galactic megacity. Skip to content Introducing the all-new ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The galaxies range in age from 460 million years after the Big Bang to just 325 million years after the Big Bang. The latter is the youngest galaxy ever to have its age confirmed through spectroscopy.