From the Andromeda Galaxy to the Magellanic clouds, check out these 7 vibrant images of galaxies nearest to the Milky Way ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

It is a majestic spiral-shaped galaxy, similar to our Milky Way, but containing many more stars. The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to our own. (We do have closer neighbor galaxies ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Scientists have predicted for a while now that the fate of the Milky Way galaxy will result in a collision with our neighboring Andromeda galaxy. Of course, we don’t expect that collision to ...

This image of twin bubbles stretching 25,000 light-years from the galactic center was captured by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...

By reconstructing stellar orbits using real Milky Way stars with accurately determined parameters, the team quantified the galaxy's mass-weighted chemical abundances and age structure. This ...

The Milky Way belongs to this class, as well as our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. Globular clusters are often mentioned in the same breath as galaxies, so they deserve a nod.