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Our Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than we've detected so far. They're just too faint to be seen.
Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 ...
Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological ...
New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...
For years, scientists have predicted that in about 3.75 billion years, our Milky Way galaxy would collide with its massive neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy. This cataclysmic event was thought to be a ...
Scientists predict up to 100 invisible galaxies may orbit the Milky Way, hiding just beyond our current detection limits.
Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...
In summer, we face toward the Milky Way's hub in the Teapot constellation, home to the galaxy's supermassive black hole.
A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...
It's the so-called "Milky Way season" in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about viewing the galaxy ...
Could an Egyptian coffin, dated 5,000 years ago, hold the answer to one of the night sky’s greatest mysteries? University of ...
"The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," according to the Capture the Atlas ...