Using the Subaru Telescope's wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny ...

The dark matter distribution of a Milky Way mass halo in a Lambda-cold dark matter (LCDM) cosmological simulation. This is the highest resolution simulation of a MW-mass dark matter halo ever ...

(Nanowerk News) Durham University’s cosmologists used a new technique combining the highest-resolution supercomputer simulations that exist, alongside novel mathematical modelling, predicting the ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, according to new research. Cosmologists at Durham University used a new technique ...

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy containing 100-400 billion stars. Planet Earth sits along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms. Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times ...

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

A supermassive black hole residing within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) - a satellite galaxy - is on a collision course ...

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...