Scientists from the University of Durham may have solved a decades-old puzzle regarding the distribution of the eleven small satellite galaxies that surround the Milky Way. The Milky Way is not alone.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to astronomers.

In cosmology, questions about conditions before the Big Bang are often dismissed as unscientific or unanswerable. However, a recent paper in Living Reviews in Relativity by Eugene Lim from King’s ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation and Simons Foundation have selected a group of institutions, including Argonne, to receive funding to establish an AI and astronomy institute called the NSF-Simons ...

There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to astronomers. As many as 100 undiscovered galaxies that are too faint to be seen ...