Astronomers from the Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea and elsewhere have discovered a rare isolated group of five star-forming dwarf galaxies in the local universe. The finding was reported in ...

(A) Dark matter distribution in our neighborhood in the Universe, the so-called Local Group of galaxies. The two large dark matter halos correspond to those of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxy; (B) ...

Satellite galaxies are low-mass companions bound to more massive host galaxies within a common dark matter halo. In the Local Group—dominated by the Milky Way and Andromeda—these satellites exhibit a ...

A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as it tracks a course to collide with neighboring galaxies, a University of Queensland survey has found. The paper is published in the Monthly ...

"This is useful to uncover leftovers from galactic interactions, constraining the hierarchical process of cosmic structure formation." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Image of the irregular dwarf galaxy Sextans A, located at a distance of about 4 million light years from us, towards the edge of the Local Group, captured by the VST (VLT Survey Telescope), an Italian ...

A high-resolution colour image showing the central galaxies NGC5713 and NGC5719 taken by the Hyper Suprime-Cam at the Subaru telescope in Hawaii. A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as ...