The Milky Way ⁠is known to have been involved in two other massive galactic mergers. It absorbed a dwarf galaxy called Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus about 1.8 billion years after the LKH merger. And over the ...

Learn more about the Gaia Sausage, a trail of stars from a dwarf galaxy the Milky Way absorbed billions of years ago. The Milky Way once absorbed a dwarf galaxy, scattering its stars across our own.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope found definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the Milky Way just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. Reading time 3 minutes The Milky Way has a long history of ...

Globular clusters (GCs) are collections of tightly gravitationally bound stars, containing hundreds of thousands, and sometimes millions of stars. Studies of GCs could help us advance our knowledge ...

Astronomers say a dwarf galaxy, left, merged with the primitive Milky Way galaxy about 12 billion years ago. Credit: NASA / ESA / Joseph Olmsted illustration Astronomers have uncovered the ...