The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so ...

Astronomers studying the Milky Way's oldest stars have estimated that the Universe is about 13.6 billion years old.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with a straight ...

Super galaxy clusters are among the largest structures in the universe. Now, a particularly large one has been measured, ...

A groundbreaking study in galactic archaeology proves the Sun made a treacherous journey to reach its current home in the ...

Astronomers said in a statement that the enormous concentration of galaxies had long remained largely hidden behind dense ...

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and planets are formed.

Astronomers from UCT have uncovered the true scale of one of the largest hidden structures in the nearby Universe.

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his ...

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...