Edwin Hubble initially identified approximately 11-12 galaxies within the Local Group, a term he coined, while current estimations place the number of members at 125 or more. The Local Group's total ...

image: Researchers discovered the first ultra-faint dwarf galaxies to be found around a spiral galaxy with the mass of the Milky Way that’s outside of the clustering of galaxies that includes the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Five local galaxies as seen by the Very Large Telescope survey (VST) . | Credit: INAF/VST-SMASH/C ...

An artist's concept depicts the Milky Way galaxy and its spiral shape. Our solar system is located in one of the spiral arms. - NASA/JPL-Caltech A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detects galaxies so far away that we see them as they were over 13 billion years ago. This ...

Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) located in the Atacama desert region of Northern Chile, astronomers have revealed five stunning portraits of galaxies in the local universe. The images of these ...

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(CNN) — A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years, has been anticipated by astronomers since 1912. But new ...