Led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara, the team has discovered that the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, may be getting torn apart by the gravitation pull ...

According to the SAGA Survey’s third data release, which analyzed 378 satellite galaxies orbiting 101 Milky Way-mass systems, the number of satellites per galaxy varies widely, from zero to 13.

High-velocity clouds are thought to be material that is being pulled into another galaxy, in this case the Milky Way, and many are thought to be made of material left over from another galaxy that ...

The Milky Way is the host galaxy of several satellite galaxies, of which the two largest are the Large and Small Magellanic ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

The Milky Way is destined to collide with a supermassive black hole from a nearby galaxy in 2 billion years! Once the Large Magellanic Cloud collides with the Milky Way, its black hole will drift ...

But wait, we live in the Milky Way galaxy, and at the center of it is what scientist believe is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. Our galaxy is only around 150,000 to 200,000 light ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way in shape, size, and stellar mass." Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever ...

A Japanese research group has found evidence that a galaxy in the immediate vicinity of our Milky Way is being torn apart by its larger companion and, unexpectedly, does not revolve around itself.