So how well do you know the Milky Way? Let's test your knowledge of our galaxy's size, age, speed and more with the 15 ...

In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully. Our galaxy's two closest neighbors are two dwarf galaxies known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), and the Small ...

"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

“This was probably due to a collision with another galaxy in the neighborhood.” Scientists highlighted "interesting regions" labelled A to E in the "largest photomosaic ever" made by Hubble ...